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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 07/02/2008
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ISBN: 9780099494058
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Length: 288 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
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Weight: 202g
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RRP: £8.99
Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now - the war took it away. Maybe it took him, too.
Now in 1949, employed as an extra in a war film that echoes his real experience, Day begins to recall what he would rather forget...
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 07/02/2008
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ISBN: 9780099494058
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Length: 288 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
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Weight: 202g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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Kennedy is described in the literary press as not only one of our finest, but also one of our most humane, writers
Church Times
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Day confirms, if confirmation were needed, that Kennedy is a singular, superlative author. I hope that the judges of this year's Man Booker prize pay particular attention to it
Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday
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Kennedy does bleak the way the Russians do epic; unremittingly, awesomely and undershot with redeeming humour
Gillian Bowditch, Sunday Times
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Once again, Kennedy brilliantly interweaves over-wrought internal dialogue with external outrageous acts. The unfolding tenderness of nature and of amity blend superbly with the casualness of daily horror
Catherine Taylor, Independent on Sunday
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Day is more than a novel, it is an investigations into the difficulties of being alive
Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
