Free Fall

Free Fall

First Edition edition

Paperback (01 Jun 2003)

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Publisher's Synopsis

"I was standing up, pressed back against the wall, trying not to breathe. I got there in the one movement my body made. My body had many hairs on legs and belly and chest and head, and each had its own life; each inherited a hundred thousand years of loathing and fear for things that scuttle or slide or crawl." from Free Fall

Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He emerges from his cell like Lazarus from the tomb, seeing infinity in a grain of sand and eternity in an hour. Transfigured by his ordeal, he begins to realize what man can be and what he has gradually made of himself through his own choices. He determines to find the exact point at which the accumulated weight of those choices has deprived him of free will.

Book information

ISBN: 9780156028233
Publisher: HMH Books
Imprint: Mariner Books
Pub date:
Edition: First Edition edition
Language: English
Number of pages: 264
Weight: 308g
Height: 206mm
Width: 132mm
Spine width: 17mm