Free live free

Gene Wolfe

Original title: Free Live Free

first published 1984 Tor Books, 1986 paperback

A group of four down-on-their-luck strangers respond to a classified ad offering a strange bargain: live free of charge in an old man's house, and help him to prevent the city from having the building demolished. This is a strange, often comic, sometimes frightening novel that sticks so closely to depicting only what the characters themselves notice that, if you're not paying close attention, it's possible to miss t...

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Free Live Free edition · 1999 · Tor Books · 416 pages · 9781466832428
Free live free edition · 1999 · Orb · 403 pages
Free live free. edition · 1989 · Legend · 408 pages
Free Live Free paperback · 1986 · Tor Books · 9780812558135
Free live free edition · 1986 · T. Doherty Associates · 403 pages
Free live free edition · 1985 · Gollancz · 416 pages
Free live free edition · 1985 · T. Doherty Associates · 403 pages
Free live free edition · 1984 · M.V. Ziesing · 496 pages

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