Vault: An Anti-Novel (Paperback)
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Short Description for Vault 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.
Full description- Publisher: Salt Publishing
- Published: 15 April 2011
- Format: Paperback 168 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781907773112 ISBN 10: 1907773118
- Sales rank: 430,120
Full description for Vault
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. Can he reclaim his own life, and perhaps more importantly, his death?
