The Coward

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ISBN: 9781838851545

Products specifications

Attribute name	Attribute value
Author	McGinnis, Jarred
Pub Date	07/07/2022
Binding	Paperback
Pages	320

Publisher: CANONGATE BOOKS LTD

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A startling and intimate debut novel which explores masculinity, family, disability and love as an estranged father and son struggle to reconcile

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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, a shoplifting habit, an addiction to painkillers and strangers treating him like he's an idiot. Worse still, he's forced to live back home with his estranged father.

Trying to piece himself together, Jarred comes to realise that things don't have to stay broken after all. The Coward is about hurt and forgiveness, how the world treats disabled people, and how we write and rewrite the stories we tell ourselves about our lives - and try to find a happy ending.