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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Hardback Editions
June 1998 : Hardback
| Title: Corker's Freedom Author(s): John Berger ISBN: 0-517-32859-3 / 978-0-517-32859-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Value Publishing Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 1995 : Hardback
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October 1993 : Hardback
| Title: CORKER'S FREEDOM: A Novel Author(s): John Berger ISBN: 0-679-42722-8 / 978-0-679-42722-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Pantheon Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1992 : Hardback
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1979 : Hardback
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1964 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
March 1995 : Paperback
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1993 : Paperback
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June 1992 : Paperback
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December 1979 : Paperback
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December 1979 : Paperback
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1964 : Unknown
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1964 : Unknown
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1964 : Unknown
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