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Corker's Freedom by J. Berger (Paperback)

From the author of the Booker Prize-winning G. and the extraordinary trilogy Into Their Labours, an early vel, written thirty years ago and published here for the first time. An exhilarating and engrossing vel 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 vel, which is always aware of the absurdity that resides in the midst of tragedy.

Place of Publication
New York
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Author Biography
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.
Out-Of-Print Date
14/07/2011
Country of Publication
United States

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