The Dear Green Place by Archie Hind

The Dear Green Place by Archie Hind

Set in nineteen-sixties Glasgow,The Dear Green Placeis an absorbing portrait of the struggles and conflicts of a working-class hero and would-be novelist Mat Craig whose desire to define himself as an artist creates social and family tensions. Published in 1966, it won theGuardianFiction Book of the Year and Yorkshire Posts Best First Work.

'One of the few novels about writers and writing that actually contributes something fresh and different where most are simply self-indulgent'

-- Rodge Glass * The List *

'An exciting first novel worth a dozen more seasoned efforts'

* Guardian *

'The only other twentieth-century novel I know that places a writer’s struggle in an equally well imagined city is Nabokov’s novel The Gift'

-- Alasdair Gray

'The best novel ever written'

* The Skinny *

'A touching insight into human strength and frailty'

* Daily Mail *

'It remains the quintessential Glasgow novel and one of the greatest portrayals of the struggle of the artist ever written'

-- Gavin Wallace

'A seminal novel of working man's aspiration'

* Publishing News *

'Archie Hind’s captivating seminal novel about the struggles of a working class writer in 1960s Glasgow yields striking and profound insights into human perseverance and vulnerability'

* Waterstones Says *

Archie Hind was born in 1928. Educated in Glasgow, where he has spent most of his life, his jobs have included bus driving, glass sculpting and data processing. He studied writing for a year at Newbattle College under Edwin Muir and attended WEA lectures by Jack Rillie of the English Department at Glasgow University; both men were to influence him and his writing. The Dear Green Place first published in 1966 is Hind's only novel and won both the Guardian Fiction Award and the Yorkshire Post’s Award for Best Book.

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ISBN 13	9781846976865
ISBN 10	1846976863
Title	The Dear Green Place
Author	Archie Hind
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Birlinn General
Year published	2024-09-05
Number of pages	352
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