Imprint: Vintage
Published: 07/02/2008
ISBN: 9780099494058
Length: 288 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
Weight: 202g
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...
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 07/02/2008
ISBN: 9780099494058
Length: 288 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
Weight: 202g
RRP: £8.99
Kennedy is described in the literary press as not only one of our finest, but also one of our most humane, writers
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
Kennedy does bleak the way the Russians do epic; unremittingly, awesomely and undershot with redeeming humour
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
Day is more than a novel, it is an investigations into the difficulties of being alive