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Morvern Callar by Alan Warner

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Part of Morvern Callar Cycle series

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Morvern Callar by Alan Warner

An utterly unforgettable novel that portrays a vast internal emptiness by using the cool, haunting voice of a young woman in Scotland lost in the profound anomie of her generation--from "one of the most talented, original and interesting voices around" (Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting). 

Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket in a desolate and beautiful port town in the west of Scotland, wakes one morning in late December to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on the kitchen floor. Morvern's reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does next is even more appalling. Moving across a blurred European landscape--from rural poverty and drunken mayhem of the port to the Mediterranean rave scene--we experience everything from Morvern's stark, unflinching perspective.

Morvern is utterly hypnotizing from her very first sentence to her last. She rarely goes anywhere without the Walkman left behind as a Christmas present by her dead boyfriend, and as she narrates this strange story, she takes care to tell the reader exactly what music she is listening to, giving the stunning effect of a sound track running behind her voice.

In much the same way that Patrick McCabe managed to tell an incredibly rich and haunting story through the eyes of an emotionally disturbed boy in The Butcher Boy, Alan Warner's Morvern Caller is a brilliant creation.

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Alan Warner is the author of three novels: Morvern Callar, which will be adapted into a film by Lynn Ramsay; These Demented Lands, which won the 1998 Encore Award; and The Sopranos, which will also be adapted into a film by Lynn Ramsay.

SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9780385487412
ISBN 10 038548741X
Title Morvern Callar
Author Alan Warner
Series Morvern Callar Cycle
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Random House USA Inc
Year published 1997-02-17
Number of pages 256
Prizes Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 1997
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.