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Winner of the Whitbread prize, by one of Scotland's greatest living novelists
Tam Docherty's youngest son, Conn, is born at the end of 1903 in a small working-class town in the west of Scotland. Tam will stop at nothing to make sure that life and the pits don't swallow up his boy, the way it did him. Courageous and questioning, Docherty emerges as a leader of almost unshakable strength, but in a close-knit community tradition is a powerful opponent.
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William McIlvanney paints a world of harsh reality, but does so in language that is strangely beautiful and hauntingly poetic. His work defies pigeonholing in any genre: this is simply great writing from a master of his craft (CRAIG RUSSELL)
Here a human history is mined with humour and a clenching sense of its sombre inequities: man's squat but lengthening shadow in the sun (Guardian)
He has a hard muscular quality to his writing. Some of his phrases hammer against you like a collier's pick (The Times)
An intense, witty and beautifully wrought novel (Daily Telegraph) --Daily Telegraph
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Here a human history is mined with humour and a clenching sense of its sombre inequities: man's squat but lengthening shadow in the sun (Guardian)
He has a hard muscular quality to his writing. Some of his phrases hammer against you like a collier's pick (The Times)
An intense, witty and beautifully wrought novel (Daily Telegraph) --Daily Telegraph
William McIlvanney is known as "the father of Tartan Noir" and "Scotland's Albert Camus." His first novel,Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Laidlaw andThe Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association.Strange Loyalties, the third in the Detective Laidlaw trilogy, won the Glasgow Herald's People's Prize.
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- EditoreCanongate Books Ltd
- Data di pubblicazione2013
- ISBN 10 1782111786
- ISBN 13 9781782111788
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine359
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Tam Docherty's youngest son, Conn, is born at the end of 1903 in a small working-class town in the west of Scotland. Tam will stop at nothing to make sure that life and the pits don't swallow up his boy, the way it did him. Courageous and questioning, Docherty emerges as a leader of almost unshakable strength, but in a close-knit community tradition is a powerful opponent. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Codice articolo GOR005419472
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