These Demented Lands by Alan Warner
'A sequel to his acclaimed début Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, confirms that Alan Warner boasts an extravagant talent... This novel is set on a Scottish island that contains a variety of weird landmarks and an hallucinogenic cast of characters - including a DJ who wants to set up the rave to end all raves, a visitor whose job is to assess candidates for sainthood and the wonderfully unfazed heroine, Morvern Callar' - Harry Ritchie, Mail on Sunday A powerful, hilarious and original novel about the intersection of lives in the rough and ready communities and wild landscapes of the Scottish Highlands.
Warner's second novel is a classic like his first one.. glorious... powerful * Independent *
A moving evocation of post- apocalyptic rave culture in the West Highlands of contemporary Scotland * Independent on Sunday *
Prodigious powers of invention... marvellously dynamic prose... brilliant visual imagination... A greatly ambitious novel * Times Literary Supplement *
Think of the inventiveness of Iain Banks filtered through the lurid lens of a David Lynch, with a soundtrack from Verve and Bob Dylan... These Demented Lands is fiction 'on the Outer Rim of everything'. Rave on, child * Scotsman *
With a style that fuses poetic discipline with the riff-based scat of a hedonist * Esquire *
A moving evocation of post- apocalyptic rave culture in the West Highlands of contemporary Scotland * Independent on Sunday *
Prodigious powers of invention... marvellously dynamic prose... brilliant visual imagination... A greatly ambitious novel * Times Literary Supplement *
Think of the inventiveness of Iain Banks filtered through the lurid lens of a David Lynch, with a soundtrack from Verve and Bob Dylan... These Demented Lands is fiction 'on the Outer Rim of everything'. Rave on, child * Scotsman *
With a style that fuses poetic discipline with the riff-based scat of a hedonist * Esquire *
Alan Warner is the author of six other novels: Morvern Callar, The Sopranos, The Man Who Walks, The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven, The Stars in the Bright Sky, which was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, and The Deadman's Pedal. He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099577911 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099577917 |
| Title | These Demented Lands |
| Author | Alan Warner |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1998-02-05 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | Winner of Encore Award 1998 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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