The last flight of Poxl West
By: Daniel Torday
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print peer picks; Thorndike Press large print peer picks
Publisher: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Waterville, Maine
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9781410481283
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Loss (Psychology); Families; World War, 1939-1945; Large type books; Veterans; FICTION / Historical; Fiction
Description: 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 he 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.
Notes: "A novel."