BOOKS - Free Live Free
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83134
Free Live Free
Author: Gene Wolfe
Year: January 1, 1984
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.2 MB
Language: English
Year: January 1, 1984
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.2 MB
Language: English
and "Free Live Free, and " said the newspaper ad, and the out-of-work detective Jim Stubb, the occultist Madame Serpentina, the salesman Ozzie Barnes, and the overweight prostitute Candy Garth are brought together to live for a time in Free's old house, a house scheduled for demolition to make way for a highway.Free drops mysterious hints of his exile from his homeland, and of the lost key to his return. And so when demolition occurs and Free disappears, the four make a pact to continue the search, which ultimately takes them far beyond their wildest dreams.This is character-driven science fiction at its best by a writer whom, at the time of its first publication, the Chicago Sun-Times called and "science fiction's best genuine novelist. and "