Morvern Callar - Softcover

Warner, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099449943 ISBN 13: 9780099449942

Publisher: Vintage, 2002

Synopsis

It is off-season in a remote Highland sea-port: 21-year-old Morvern Callar, a supermarket employee, wakes to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on the kitchen floor. Morvern's laconic reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does next is even more appalling.

About this title

Review:

'...more than a stunning debut novel; to my mind it establishes Alan Warner as one of the most talented, original and interesting voices around’ -- Irvine Welsh

‘A dazzling achievement...he defines the 90s as clearly as Ian McEwan defined the 70s and Jay McInerney the 80s’ -- Time Out

‘Morvern Callar must be the year’s most unjustly neglected novel...bleak, haunting and brilliantly original’ -- Nick Hornby, Books of the Year, Observer

‘Morvern gleams like an onyx from a vivid, macabre and lyrical book... she is impossible to forget’ -- Elizabeth Young, Guardian

‘Not since Camus’ Outsider has a voice with so many angles hopped and fluttered from the page, has a note risen to chill in its opening breath’ -- Scotland on Sunday

From the Publisher:

'A dazzling achievement...he defines the 90's as Ian McEwan defined the 70's and Jay McInerney the 80's' Time Out

Tough, lyrical and erotic - the story of one woman's journey of the soul

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0099449943
• ISBN 13: 9780099449942
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240