Swing Hammer Swing! - Softcover

Torrington, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156001977 ISBN 13: 9780156001977

Publisher: Mariner Books, 1995

Synopsis

In Glasgow, Scotland, during the late 1960s, Thomas Clay faces several life crises--unemployment, the premature birth of his child, the prospect of homelessness, and a group of small-time gangsters at his heels

About this title

Review:

"A gamey, pungent, vulgar sprawl of a novel, somewhere in the hinterland where Damon Runyon meets James Joyce" (Observer)

"Swing Hammer Swing! is a great novel" (James Kelman)

"A crazily good read... this [is a] fantastic first novel" (Scotland on Sunday)

"It is such a good novel, with such energy of language and gift for striking off memorable scenes, that its appearance at any time would be welcomed . . . It prompts reflection on how much it would have benefited Scottish writers if 20 years ago a novel had been published with Jeff Torrington's absolute lack of compromise or temporising explanation in the use of Glasgow material and dialect" (The Scotsman)

"This might be the Gorbals, and the banter might be exchanged on the steps of tramp-haunted urinals, but the reference points are Nietzsche, Pascal, Chekhov and Sartre'" (Independent)

Book Description:

'Swing Hammer Swing! is a seriously good novel. Critics have rightly claimed that he does for Glasgow what James Joyce did for Dublin' – Stephen Pile, Daily Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0156001977
• ISBN 13: 9780156001977
• Binding: Paperback