The Stornoway Way Kevin MacNeil

Name: The Stornoway Way By Kevin MacNeil
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The Stornoway Way by Kevin MacNeil

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Meet R Stornoway, drink-addled misfit, inhabitant of the Hebridean Isle of Lewis, and meandering man fighting to break free of an island he just can't seem to let go of.

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The Stornoway Way by Kevin MacNeil

'Fuck everyone from Holden Caulfield to Bridget Jones, fuck all the American and English phoney fictions that claim to speak for us; they don't know the likes of us exist and they never did. We are who we are because we grew up the Stornoway way. We do not live in the back of beyond, we live in the very heart of beyond ...'

Meet R Stornoway, drink-addled misfit, inhabitant of the Hebridean Isle of Lewis, and meandering man fighting to break free of an island he just can't seem to let go of...

About Kevin MacNeil

Kevin MacNeil was born and raised on the Isle of Lewis. He was British Council Writer in Residence at Uppsala University, Sweden, 2002-3 and inaugural Iain Crichton Smith Writing Fellow in the Scottish Highlands. His poetry has been translated into 10 languages and he has performed his English and Gaelic work in places as diverse as Columbia, Malta, America, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Sweden and the Czech Republic. He has also written for radio, television and film. This is his first novel.

A lyrically powerful and no-holds-barred exploration of contemporary life in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The novel is rendered by means of a multiplicity of arresting narrativve voices, shared between the author and his pseudonymous compatriot 'R. Stornoway'.

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GOR001726656

ISBN 13

9780141021607

ISBN 10

0141021608

Title

The Stornoway Way by Kevin MacNeil

Author

Kevin MacNeil

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Year published

2006-09-07

Number of pages

272

Prizes

N/A

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