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Authors: Daniel Torday
DANIEL TORDAY
is the Director of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College. An author and a former editor at
Esquire
magazine, Torday currently serves as an editor at
The Kenyon Review
. His short stories and essays have appeared in
Esquire, Glimmer Train, Harper Perennial's Fifty-two Stories, Harvard Review, The New York Times,
and
The Kenyon Review
. Torday's novella,
The Sensualist,
won the 2012 National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction. Visit him online at
www.danieltorday.com
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.
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ALSO BY
DANIEL TORDAY
The Sensualist
(a novella)
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Contents
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Act One (Skylock: The Memoir of a Jewish RAF Bomber)
Acknowledgment: First Interlude
Acknowledgment: Second Interlude
Acknowledgment: Final Interlude
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE LAST FLIGHT OF POXL WEST.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Torday, Daniel.
      The last flight of Poxl West: a novel / Daniel Torday.
          pages cm
      ISBN 978-1-250-05168-4 (hardcover)
      ISBN 978-1-4668-7181-6 (e-book)
   1.  World War, 1939â1945âVeteransâFiction.  2.  FamiliesâFiction.  3.  Loss (Psychology)âFiction.  I.  Title.
      PS3620.O58747L37 2015
      813'.6âdc23                                                  2014036360
e-ISBN 9781466871816
First Edition: March 2015