Los Angeles Times_ 'Day: A Novel' by A.L. Kennedy (January 27) 
27.01.2008
By Thomas McGonigle, January 27, 2008
BOOK REVIEW A World War II vet comes to grips with his POW ordeal by participating in a film version of his experience. Day
A Novel
A.L. Kennedy
Alfred A. Knopf: 280 pp., $24
Years from now, when Scotland achieves independence from the British, just imagine: There will appear on a celebratory dais a number of doddering survivors from that group of writers who put Scotland on the international literary map: Alasdair Gray, Jeff Torrington, Agnes Owens, James Kelman, Janice Galloway and A.L. Kennedy. (We know this from the pertinent examples of Ireland and Estonia: genuine independence always proceeds from a startling reappearance of a long-suppressed cultural identity.)
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