macCloud Falls by Robert Alan Jamieson

macCloud Falls by Robert Alan Jamieson

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MacCloud Falls follows bookseller Gilbert Johnson who, after a cancer diagnosis, embarks on a journey to discover the story of an early settler in Canada, whom he believes may have been his runaway grandfather.

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macCloud Falls by Robert Alan Jamieson

macCLOUD FALLS is both an exploration of early Scottish colonisation of B.C. and its ongoing impact, and a road-trip romance full of humour, rich characters and incident in the shadow of impending death, played out against the backdrop of the Vancouver Canucks’ vainglorious Stanley Cup run.
Jamieson is a writer of endless narrative invention and soaring prose and he tells an important story here- HARRY MCGRATH, SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS
Robert Alan Jamieson was born in Lerwick on Up Helly Aa, 1958 and grew up in the crofting community of Sandness. He attended the University of Edinburgh as a mature student and subsequently held the William Soutar Fellowship in Perth. He was a co-editor of Edinburgh Review, 1993-98, and writer in residence at the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde, 1998-2001. Since then he has tutored creative writing at the University of Edinburgh.
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ISBN 13 9781912147441
ISBN 10 1912147440
Title macCloud Falls
Author Robert Alan Jamieson
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Luath Press Ltd
Year published 2020-03-15
Number of pages 224
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