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Somehow, somewhere, Sammy Mountjoy lost his freedom, the faculty of freewill 'that cannot be debated but only experienced, like a colour or the taste of potatoes'. As he retraces his life in an effort to discover why he no longer has the power to choose and decide for himself, the…

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1 author picked Free Fall as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I loved the narration of this book: the protagonist is a painter being interrogated in a prison camp about his life.

It made me think about choices, different paths a person might go down. Here, the narrator feels guilty of some devastating event in the past. What, he wonders, caused his fall?  It makes me wonder with him if selfishness in love is an essential component in an artistic personality.

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