McIlvanney, William Docherty ISBN 13: 9780906391365

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A novel, winner of the 1975 Whitbread award for fiction, in which a man from an impoverished Scottish mining town becomes leader of his community, even though he longs for escape. From the author of THE PAPERS OF TONY VEITCH, THE BIG MAN, STRANGE LOYALTIES and THE KILN.

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"Intense, witty and beautifully wrought" (Telegraph)

"He has a hard muscular quality to his writing . . . His phrases hammer against you like a collier's pick" (The Times)

"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)

"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)

"A serious, considered and achingly sympathetic engagement with the people whose only trace in historical record is birth and dead notices" (Scotsman)
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The Whitbread Prize-winning modern classic. Introduced by Hugh McIlvanney

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  • PublisherMainstream Publishing
  • Publication date1983
  • ISBN 10 0906391369
  • ISBN 13 9780906391365
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages320
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