Docherty by William Mcilvanney
Tam Docherty's youngest son, Conn, is born at the end of 1903 in a small working-class town in the west of Scotland. Tam will stop at nothing to make sure that life and the pits don't swallow up his boy, the way it did him. Courageous and questioning, Docherty emerges as a leader of almost unshakable strength, but in a close-knit community tradition is a powerful opponent.
William McIlvanney paints a world of harsh reality, but does so in language that is strangely beautiful and hauntingly poeticHis work defies pigeonholing in any genre: this is simply great writing from a master of his craft -- CRAIG RUSSELL
Here a human history is mined with humour and a clenching sense of its sombre inequities: man's squat but lengthening shadow in the sun * * Guardian * *
He has a hard muscular quality to his writing. Some of his phrases hammer against you like a collier's pick * * The Times * *
An intense, witty and beautifully wrought novel * * Daily Telegraph * *
Here a human history is mined with humour and a clenching sense of its sombre inequities: man's squat but lengthening shadow in the sun * * Guardian * *
He has a hard muscular quality to his writing. Some of his phrases hammer against you like a collier's pick * * The Times * *
An intense, witty and beautifully wrought novel * * Daily Telegraph * *
William McIlvanney's first novel, Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association. Strange Loyalties, the third in the Detective Laidlaw trilogy, won the Glasgow Herald's People's Prize. He died in December 2015.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781782111788 |
| ISBN 10 | 1782111786 |
| Title | Docherty |
| Author | William Mcilvanney |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2013-11-28 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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