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  • Engels
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  • 9780062276759
  • 04 februari 2014
  • 320 pagina's
  • Adobe ePub
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Willy Vlautin

Willy Vlautin (1967) is schrijver en singer-songwriter van de band Richmond Fontaine. Zijn boeken werden met lovende kritieken ontvangen en wonnen meerdere prijzen. Zijn roman Motelleven werd verfilmd met o.a. Dakota Fanning en Stephen Dorff en Lean on Pete wordt op dit moment verfilmd met Steve Buscemi, Chloë Sevigny en Steve Zahn. Hij woont en werkt in Scapoose, Oregon.

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Award-winning author Willy Vlautin demonstrates his extraordinary talent for confronting issues facing modern America, illuminated through the lives of three memorable characters who are looking for a way out of their financial, familial, and existential crises, in his heartbreaking and hopeful fourth novel

Leroy Kervin is a 31 year old Iraqi War veteran living with a traumatic brain injury. Unable to dress or feed himself, or cope with his emotions, he has spent the last seven years in a group home. There he spends his days watching old sci-fi movies until he awakens one night with a clear mind and memories of his girlfriend. Realizing what his life has been he decides it would be better to die than to go on living this way. A failed suicide attempt leaves Leroy hospitalized where he retreats further into his mind in order to make sense of his existence.

Freddie McCall is a middle aged father working two jobs. He’s lost his wife and kids, and is close to losing his house. He’s buried in debt, unable to pay the medical bills from his daughter’s childhood illness. As Freddie’s situation becomes more desperate he undertakes a risky endeavor he hopes will solve his problems but could possibly end in disaster. Just as Freddie is about to lose it all, he is faced with the possibility of getting his kids back.

Pauline Hawkins takes care of everyone else around her. She cares for her mentally ill father out of a deep sense of obligation. As a nurse at the local hospital, she treats her patients and their families with a familiar warmth and tenderness. When Pauline becomes attached to a young runaway, she learns the difficult lesson that you can’t help someone who doesn’t help themselves.

The lives of these three characters intersect as they look for meaning in desperate times. Willy Vlautin covers themes ranging from health care to the economic downturn and housing crisis, to the toll war takes on veterans and their families. The Free is an extraordinary portrait of contemporary America and a testament to the resiliency of the human heart.

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Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
04 februari 2014
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320
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Willy Vlautin
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Harper Perennial

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127 mm
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Product lengte
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165 mm
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23 mm
Verpakking lengte
178 mm
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223 g

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9780062276759

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  • Good people do exist

    How to review such a magnificent book? By referring to growing inequality in the US, now a land of limited opportunities? By saying it is anti-war and that the US government neglects its wrecked war survivors? Or as a companion book to Beverly Gologorsky’s “Stop Here” , also anti-war, describing the lives of 5 co-workers, their boss and friends and relatives at a Long Island, NY diner? Some themes return in “The Free” where people also live from one pay check to another, face broken families, crippling medical bills despite insurance, drive old cars, work night shifts or two jobs to care for others... It also repeats her disgust about sending poorly-trained National Guard men to Iraq.
    Situated in a small town in the Northwest, its main characters are Leroy, Pauline and Freddy. Leroy does not speak a word in the novel, but his dreams and hallucinations in hospital-- inspired by his favourite reading matter, SF—are an integral part, chronologically and in italics. They concern an epic effort to save his girlfriend Jeannette from evil US armed forces and vigilantes right into Canada: after being wounded in Iraq, Leroy has spent seven years as a mute paraplegic in an institution. One night, he believed he could think normally again, but he panics (it cannot last!) and tries to kill himself.
    He was found by night caretaker Freddy and rushed to hospital, where Freddy visits him every night before starting his shift. Freddy’s day shift is running a paint store. Readers must read his dramas, dreams, and struggles for themselves. Pauline is one of the nurses checking up on Leroy repeatedly during her rounds. She has a great bedside manner with the sick and despairing, but is fiercely independent privately. Again, I refuse to be a spoiler.
    Rich novel with many other well described characters about true humanity and warmth in stressful times. Re-readable and perfect for reading groups. Highly recommended.

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  • Het leven is hard

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    • Fantasierijk

    Prachtig boek waarin de levens van diverse personen met elkaar verweven raken.

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