Willie Hogg by Robin Jenkins

Willie Hogg by Robin Jenkins

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Willie Hogg by Robin Jenkins

Robin Jenkins' novel tells a contemporary but universal story which resounds with a sense of hope. An elderly man, Willie, and his wife, Maggie, travel to a Navajo reservation in the Arizona desert where Maggie's missionary sister, Elspeth, lies dying of cancer. An article on the couple in a Glasgow newspaper a few weeks previously had sparked off a great effort in the city to raise funds for the trip and Willie and his wife soon find themselves the target of unseemly publicity and envied by their neighbours. On their arrival in America, Willie finds his lifelong beliefs tested under the huge, empty sky of Arizona, and Maggie, it seems, has undergone a real transformation...
Robin Jenkins was born in 1912. He studied at Glasgow University and travelled and worked in Spain, Afghanistan and Borneo. He is the author of over twenty novels, including the acclaimed Fergus Lamont and The Cone Gatherers. In 2003 he was awarded a Saltire Award for Life-time Achievement. He died in 2005.
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ISBN 13 9780748661527
ISBN 10 0748661522
Title Willie Hogg
Author Robin Jenkins
Series Fiction Series
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Birlinn General
Year published 2001-01-01
Number of pages 176
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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