Binding: Paperback
Description: A NEW YORK Times BOOK Review Editors Choice Named A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE Philadelphi a Inquirer Winner OF THE 2015 National Jewish BOOK Award / JJ Greenberg Memorial Award Finalist FOR THE 2017 SAMI ROHR Prize Longlisted FOR THE 2017 International Dublin Literary Award Finalist FOR THE 2015 Wallant Award A stunning debut novel from award - winning author Daniel Torday in which a young man recounts his idolization of his Uncle Poxl a Jewish former RAF pilot exploring memory fame and storytelling. Poxl West fled the Nazis onslaught in Czechoslovakia. He escaped their clutches again in Holland. He pulled Londoners from the Blitz's rubble. He wooed intoxicating unconventional beauties. He rained fire on Germany from his RAF bomber. Poxl West is the epitome of manhood and something of an idol to his teenage nephew Eli Goldstein who reveres him as a brave singular Jewish war hero. Poxl fills Eli's head with electric accounts of his derring - do adventures and romances as he collects the best episodes from his storied life into a memoir. He publishes that memoir Skylock to great acclaim and its success takes him on the road and out of Eli's life. With his uncle gone Eli throws himself into reading his opus and becomes fixated on all things Poxl. But as he delves deeper into Poxl's history Eli begins to see that the life of the fearless superman he's adored has been much darker than Poxl let on and filled with unimaginable loss from which he may have not recovered. As the truth about Poxl emerges it forces Eli to face irreconcilable facts about the war he's romanticized and the vision of the man he's held so dear. Daniel Torday's debut novel The Last Flight of Poxl West beautifully weaves together the two unforgettable voices of Eli Goldstein and Poxl West exploring what it really means to be a hero and to be a family in the long shadow of war.
Title: The Last Flight Of Poxl West A Novel
Author(s): Torday Daniel
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250081605
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/1/2016
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction