num_pages: 253
description: Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and obscurity to see his pictures hung in London's Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is captured and confined to a prison cell in total darkness. He emerges from his cell like Lazarus from the tomb.
language: English
title: Free Fall
titlecomplete: Free Fall
genres: Historical Fiction, Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 1278
publisher: Harcourt Brace