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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

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraph

 

Acknowledgment: Prologue

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

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Acknowledgment: First Interlude

Act Two (Skylock)

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Acknowledgment: Second Interlude

Act Three (Skylock)

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Acknowledgment: Caesura

Act Four (Skylock)

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Acknowledgment: Final Interlude

Act Five (Skylock)

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

 

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Daniel Torday

Copyright

 

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, 1939–1945—Veterans—Fiction.  2.   Families—Fiction.  3.   Loss (Psychology)—Fiction.  I.   Title.

      PS3620.O58747L37 2015

      813'.6—dc23                                                  2014036360

e-ISBN 9781466871816

First Edition: March 2015

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