CORKER'S FREEDOM: A Novel - Hardcover

Berger, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679427228 ISBN 13: 9780679427223

Publisher: Pantheon, 1993

Synopsis

The elderly owner of an employment agency seeks an illusory escape from the demands of responsibility

About this title

From the Back Cover

It is the unforgettable, often comical portrait of a dreamer, one William Corker, the genteel proprietor of a London employment agency, who, in his sixty-third year, has just moved out of the house he shared with his overbearing sister. As Corker takes his first steps into a life of the passions, Berger creates a character of astonishing depth and liveliness- a man whose fantasies and ambitions are at once splendid and tragic.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679427228
• ISBN 13: 9780679427223
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 238