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Article: MEMOIR; His brother's keeper; Ken Dornstein tries to piece together the life of his older brother, David, who went down with Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- March 12, 2006
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Byline: Brad Zellar
Special to the Star Tribune
Ken Dornstein's "The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky" is subtitled "A True Story." That, of course, is a phrase that poses potential difficulties for a reader in the wake of the James Frey scandal.
You can't blame Dornstein for his timing, though; it took him almost two decades to piece together the story of his older brother David, who was killed Dec. 21, 1988, when a bomb destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. And while the time lapse between now and the events recounted might raise questions about the literal accuracy of remembered conversations and chronology, it also seemingly ...
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