Pig Iron by Benjamin Myers
Returning to the post-industrial north-east of England of his upbringing, young gypsy John-John Wisdom wants to escape his past. His new job as an ice cream man should offer freedom, but the legacy of brutality left by his father, the champion bare-knuckle boxer Mac Wisdom, overshadows his life and instead pulls him into the dark recesses of a town where is family name is mud.John-John seeks solace in nature and must find an inner strength in order to escape poverty, prejudice and his violent heritage. Taking a dual narrative in which past and present intertwine towards a dramatic conclusion, Pig Iron is an unflinching and poetic portrait of contemporary Traveller culture.Set in fairgrounds, woodlands, camp sites, car parks, quarries and housing estates, it is also a homage to the beauty and diversity of the modern English landscape.
His poetic vernacular brims with that quality most sadly lost - humanity- The Guardian
THE GALLOWS POLE by Benjamin Myers won the world's leading literary prize for historical fiction THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2018. BEASTINGS won The Portico literature Prize in 2015 and PIG IRON won The Gordon Burn Prize in 2013. Myers' is the recipient of the Society of Authors Roger Deakin Prize 2016 for The Gallows Pole. He also won the Northern Writers Award 2014 and the Society of Authors Tom Gallon Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780956687678 |
| ISBN 10 | 0956687679 |
| Title | Pig Iron |
| Author | Benjamin Myers |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bluemoose Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2012-05-31 |
| Number of pages | 300 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Gordon Burn Prize 2013 |
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