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Mcginnis, Jarred

 
9781838851538: The Coward: A BBC Two Between the Covers pick
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1838851534 ISBN 13: 9781838851538
Verlag: Canongate Books, 2022

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A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK

Question: What's worse than being in a wheelchair?
Answer: Being a fuck-up in a wheelchair.

After a car accident Jarred discovers he'll never walk again. Confined to a 'giant roller-skate', he finds himself with neither money nor job. Worse still, he's forced to live back home with the father he hasn't spoken to in ten years.

Add in a shoplifting habit, an addiction to painkillers and the fact that total strangers now treat him like he's an idiot, it's a recipe for self-destruction. How can he stop himself careering out of control?

As he tries to piece his life together again, he looks back over his past - the tragedy that blasted his family apart, why he ran away, the damage he's caused himself and others - and starts to wonder whether, maybe, things don't always have to stay broken after all.

The Coward is about hurt and forgiveness. It's about how the world treats disabled people. And it's about how we write and rewrite the stories we tell ourselves about our lives - and try to find a happy ending.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jarred McGinnis is the co-founder of The Special Relationship, which was chosen for the British Council's International Literature Showcase. His short fiction has been commissioned for BBC Radio 4 and appeared in literary journals in the UK, Canada, USA and Ireland. He is an Associate Writer for Spread the Word, a fellow of the London Library's Emerging Writer Programme and a Writer-in-Residence for First Story. He also has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, but mostly he inspires the able-bodied by using public transport and taking his daughters to the playground. He is currently living in France.

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Verlag
Canongate Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1838851534
ISBN 13 
9781838851538
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
307
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