Informationen zum Autor Willy Vlautin is the prize-winning author of three acclaimed novels! The Motel Life (2005)! Northline (2007) and Lean on Pete (2010)! which was shortlisted for the IMPAC Prize. He is also the frontman of the band Richmond Fontaine! whose albums include 'Post to Wire' and 'Thirteen Cities'. Originally from Reno! he now lives in Portland! Oregon. Klappentext Willy Vlautin's stunning fourth novel opens with Leroy, a young, wounded, Iraq veteran, waking to a rare moment of clarity. When his attempt to end his half-life fails, he is taken to the local hospital where he is looked after by a nurse called Pauline, and visited by Freddie, the night-watchman from his group home for disabled men. As the stories of these three wounded characters circle and cross each other, we come to learn more of their lives. A beautiful and bittersweet new novel from the author of Lean on Pete and The Motel Life Zusammenfassung Severely wounded in the Iraq war, Leroy has lived a half-life in a group home for eight years. Unable to bear it any longer, he commits a desperate act which helps him to disappear to another place. Freddie is the night porter at the home, who works two jobs yet can't make ends meet. Buried in debt from his younger daughter's medical bills, he's forced to consider a criminal proposition. Pauline is the nurse who tends Leroy, who lives her life in an uncomplicated way, emotionally removed, until she meets a young runaway. An extraordinary portrait of contemporary America, and a testament to the resilience of the human heart, The Free is Willy Vlautin's most moving and affecting novel to date.
Paru le : 04/03/2015
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Auteur(s) : Auteur : Vlautin, Willy
Éditeur(s) :
Faber & Faber
Collection(s) : Non précisé.
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ISBN : Non précisé.
EAN13 : 9780571300303
Pages : 273
Hauteur: 198.0 cm / Largeur 128.0 cm
Épaisseur: 17.0 cm
Poids: 0 g
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