Corker's Freedom (Vintage International) - Softcover

Berger, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679755136 ISBN 13: 9780679755135

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995

Synopsis

From the author of the Booker Prize-winning G. and the extraordinary trilogy Into Their Labours, an early novel, written thirty years ago and published here for the first time. An exhilarating and engrossing novel about the elderly owner of an employment agency whose romantic yearnings and inarticulate dreams propel him into a world of fantasy, Corker's Freedom displays the story-telling magic that is a hallmark of John Berger's highly acclaimed fiction. In this powerfully unsettling tale about the pitfalls of free will, we observe the gradual disintegration of one man's genteel and shabby life as he is driven, over the course of one day, to seek an illusory freedom from the bonds of responsibility. Berger explores the disturbingly gray areas between the private and the public self in a mordantly witty novel, which is always aware of the absurdity that resides in the midst of tragedy.

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Review:

John Berger has found a voice perfectly fitted to express an emotional sincerity quite rare in fiction at the moment --Ursula le Guin, Guardian

This is a book of controlled rage sculpted with tools of tenderness and a searing political vision. --Arundhati Roy

The record of one restless, committed, brilliant consciousness; a late showcase of a mind and sensibility of astonishing range and depth. --Melissa Benn, Independent

About the Author:

John Berger was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels and stories as well as for his works of nonfiction, including several volumes of art criticism. His first novel, A Painter of Our Time, was published in 1958, and since then his books have included Ways of Seeing, the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours, and the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, and lived in a small village in the French Alps. He died in 2017.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679755136
• ISBN 13: 9780679755135
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240