The Kiln [electronic resource]
McIlvanney, William2014
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A novel of dreams, disappointments, and detours: “Pitch-perfect . . . excruciatingly funny . . . a beguilingly brilliant portrait of the artist as an adolescent.” —The Sunday Times Named Scottish Book of the Year by the Saltire Society Tam Docherty was seventeen in the summer of 1955. With school behind him and a summer job at a brick works, Tom had his whole life before him. Years later, alone in a rented flat in Edinburgh and lost in memories, Tom recalls the intellectual and sexual awakening of his youth. In looking back, Tom discovers that only by understanding where he comes from can he make sense of his life as it is now. A follow-up to the author’s prize-winning novel Docherty, which focused on Tam’s namesake grandfather, this is a “beautifully written” story of boyhood, manhood, and the sometimes blurry border between them (The Times, London). “On almost every page it offers matter for reflection and the sudden stab of emotion that comes from reading something that is truly evoked or created . . . It is rare and it is wonderful.” —The Scotsman
Main title:
The Kiln [electronic resource] / William McIlvanney
Author:
McIlvanney, William, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Canongate Books, 2014
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
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.
ISBN:
9781782111917
Language:
English
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BRN:
2900273
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