Day >>>> A SIGNED & FIRST LINED UK 1ST EDITION - 1ST PRINTING - COSTA WINNER <<<<
by A. L. Kennedy
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine /Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0224077864
- ISBN 13
- 9780224077866
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape. A near fine UK first edition, first printing hardback (hint of spotting to textblock) - in a fine dustjacket - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - "Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now - the war took it away. Maybe it took him, too. Before Hitler and the bombs he was a boy in Staffordshire, helpless to defend his mother, to resist his abusive father. The RAF gave him order, skills, another family and a way to be a man. It taught him how to burn through lifetimes on night ops and brief, sweet leaves, surviving the unsurvivable. But it didn't prepare him for capture, for the prison camp and the chaos as the war wound down. It didn't prepare him for an empty peace. Now it's 1949 and Alfred is doing the impossible again, winding back time to see where he lost himself. He has taken the role of an extra in a Pow film. Shipped out to Germany and an ersatz camp, he picks his way through the cliches that will become all that's left of his war and begins to do what he's never dared - to remember. He is looking for some semblance of hope: trying to move forward by going back. A superbly realised novel about the brutal simplicities of war - of horror, and the camaraderie found in the closeness to death - and a moving exploration of the complexities of human emotion, "Day" is a wonderful piece of storytelling: the freight of history and humanity carried effortlessly by the beauty of the writing. For previous readers of A.L. Kennedy's books the dark humour, close observation and thrillingly original language will come as no surprise; for new readers, this novel will be a revelation" - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR & LINED "Alfred was growing a moustache" - Pictures of the book are available upon request. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 2007.
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- Bookseller
- Zeitgeist Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000812
- Title
- Day >>>> A SIGNED & FIRST LINED UK 1ST EDITION - 1ST PRINTING - COSTA WINNER
- Author
- A. L. Kennedy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0224077864
- ISBN 13
- 9780224077866
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- SEBASTIAN BARRY; IRELAND; COSTA; FICTION; FIRST EDITION; PRINTING; SEX; POWER; CONTEMPORARY AMERICA; IMMIGRANT; TRAVEL; STRUGGLE; LIFE; DEATH; COOK; THE SECRET SCRIPTURE; IRISH CIVIL WAR; WOMEN; MENTAL HEALTH; A L KENNEDY; DAY; AWARD WINNER; LITERARY
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