Vault : An Anti-Novel

Name: Vault
Brand: Salt Publishing
SKU: 9781907773112
Price: 1750 KES
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ISBN: 9781907773112

by David Rose

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1907773118

ISBN-13 9781907773112

Publisher Salt Publishing

Imprint Salt Publishing

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 15th, 2011

Print length 176 Pages

Weight 218 grams

Dimensions 19.70 x 13.10 x 1.40 cms

Product Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

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A man has had his life story turned into a novel, without his knowledge or approval. As he now reads, comments on and corrects the novel, he begins to struggle to distance himself from the false heroics, and above all, to reclaim his own death.

A pre-war amateur cycling career is cut short by call-up. Trained as a sniper, the man, whose name we never know for sure, embarks for war-torn Europe. Undecided how to resume his life at the war’s close, and disturbed by what he has left behind on the Continent, he is compelled to return, dispensing first medical aid, then something quite different.A further attempt to take up his cycling career is thwarted when he is inveigled into playing his minor part in a new – Cold – war. Finally settling for a retreat into peaceful obscurity, he discovers even this is not to be.His story, he learns, has been turned into a novel. without his knowledge or approval. As he now reads, comments on and corrects the novel, he begins to struggle to distance himself from the false heroics, and above all, to reclaim his own death.

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