The Free (Harper Perennial Olive Editions)

by Willy Vlautin

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The life he knew before the bomb no longer existed. That Leroy Kervin was gone.

Willy Vlautin's stunning fourth novel opens with Leroy, a young, wounded, Iraq veteran, waking to a rare moment of clarity, his senses flooded with the beauty of remembering who he is but the pain of realising it won't last. 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...

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  • ISBN10 0571300316
  • ISBN13 9780571300310
  • Publish Date 27 January 2014
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Faber & Faber
  • Edition Main
  • Format eBook (EPUB)
  • Pages 268
  • Language English