Sputnik Caledonia by Andrew Cumey
Sputnik Caledonia was awarded the prestigious Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award and was shortlisted for The James Tait Black Prize and The Scottish Book of the Year Award. Robbie Coyle is an imaginative kid. He wants so badly to become Scotland's first cosmonaut that he tries to teach himself Russian and trains for space exploration in the cupboard under the sink. But the places to which his fantasies later take him are far from the safety of his suburban childhood. In a communist state, in a closed bleak town, the mysterious Red Star heralds his discovery of cruelty, love, and the possibility that the most passionate of dreams may only be a chimera. 'This is a surprisingly moving novel about the impersonal forces - be they political, quantum, temporal or otherwise - that can threaten or shatter the bonds of love, and of family life. Never has astrophysics seemed so touching and funny.' Sinclair McKay in The Daily Telegraph
Crumey, Andrew: - Andrew Crumey was born in Glasgow in 1961. He read theoretical physics and mathematics at St Andrews University and Imperial College in London, before doing post-doctoral research at Leeds University on nonlinear dynamics. He is the author of seven novels: Music, in a Foreign Language (1994), Pfitz (1995), D'Alembert's Principle (1996), Mr Mee (2000), Mobius Dick(2004) Sputnik Caledonia(2008) and The Secret Knowledge (2013). His novels have been translated into 14 languages. Pfitz was selected as one of the books of the year in both The Observer and The New York Times.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781910213131 |
| ISBN 10 | 1910213136 |
| Title | Sputnik Caledonia |
| Author | Andrew Cumey |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Dedalus Ltd |
| Year published | 2015-07-21 |
| Number of pages | 553 |
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