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The Coward

Jarred McGinnis
3.93/5 (854 ratings)
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Question: What's worse than being a fuck-up?
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, and 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 an ending.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
304 pages
Publication:
2021
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd.
Edition:
Main
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1838851534
ISBN13:
9781838851538
kindle Asin:
B08QJNXMN9

The Coward

Jarred McGinnis
3.93/5 (854 ratings)
Read Download
Question: What's worse than being a fuck-up?
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, and 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 an ending.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
304 pages
Publication:
2021
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd.
Edition:
Main
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1838851534
ISBN13:
9781838851538
kindle Asin:
B08QJNXMN9

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