Docherty [electronic resource]
McIlvanney, William2013
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Whitbread Award Winner: A Scottish miner fights for a better life for his son in this "intense, witty and beautifully wrought novel" (Daily Telegraph). At the dawn of the twentieth century, newborn Conn Docherty, raw as a fresh wound, lies between his parents in their tenement room, with no birthright but a life's labor in the pits of his small town on the coast of Scotland. But the world is changing, and, lying next to him, Conn's father, Tam, has decided that his son's life will be different from his own... Gritty, dark and tender, Docherty is a modern classic, "a serious, considered and achingly sympathetic engagement with the people whose only trace in historical record is birth and dead notices" (Scotsman). "McIlvanney depicts the west of Scotland with a canny and ruthless insight."—Scotsman "As a stylist Mr. McIlvanney leaves most of the competition far behind."—The New York Times Book Review
Main title:
Docherty [electronic resource] / William McIlvanney
Author:
McIlvanney, William, AuthorMcIlvanney, Hugh, Author of introduction, etc
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Canongate Books, 2013
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Canons
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:
9781782111795
Language:
English
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BRN:
2344357