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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
. You can sign up for email updates
here
.

ALSO BY
DANIEL TORDAY

The Sensualist
(a novella)

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Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Acknowledgment: Prologue

Act One (Skylock: The Memoir of a Jewish RAF Bomber)

Acknowledgment: First Interlude

Acknowledgment: Second Interlude

Acknowledgment: Caesura

Acknowledgment: Final Interlude

Also by Daniel Torday

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.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Torday, Daniel.

Â Â Â Â Â Â The last flight of Poxl West: a novel / Daniel Torday.

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â pages cm

Â Â Â Â Â Â ISBN 978-1-250-05168-4 (hardcover)

Â Â Â Â Â Â ISBN 978-1-4668-7181-6 (e-book)

Â Â Â 1.Â Â World War, 1939â1945âVeteransâFiction.Â Â 2.Â Â FamiliesâFiction.Â Â 3.Â Â Loss (Psychology)âFiction.Â Â I.Â Â Title.

Â Â Â Â Â Â PS3620.O58747L37 2015

Â Â Â Â Â Â 813'.6âdc23Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 2014036360

e-ISBN 9781466871816

First Edition: March 2015