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The last flight of Poxl West / Daniel Torday.
Van Pelt Library PS3620.O58747 L37 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Torday, Daniel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Veterans.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Loss (Psychology).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 291 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- "All his life, Elijah Goldstein has idolized his charismatic Uncle Poxl. Intensely magnetic, cultured and brilliant, Poxl takes Elijah under his wing, introducing him to opera and art and literature. But when Poxl publishes a memoir of how he was forced to leave his home north of Prague at the start of WWII and then avenged the deaths of his parents by flying RAF bombers over Germany during the war, killing thousands of German citizens, Elijah watches as the carefully constructed world his uncle has created begins to unravel. As Elijah discovers the darker truth of Poxl's past, he comes to understand that the fearless war hero he always revered is in fact a broken and devastated man who suffered unimaginable losses from which he has never recovered. [This book, the author's] debut novel, weaves together what it means to be a family in the shadow of war-- to love, to lose, and to heal"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "A novel"--Jacket.
- National Jewish Book Awards - Fiction, Winner, 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781250051684
- 1250051681
- OCLC:
- 876349622
- Online:
- Cover image
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