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Docherty (Canons)
William McIlvanney
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Description for Docherty (Canons)
Paperback. The Whitbread Prize-winning modern classic, with an introduction by Hugh McIlvanney Series: Canons. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 286.
'His face made a fist at the world. The twined remnant of umbilicus projected vulnerably. Hands, feet and prick. He had come equipped for the job.' Newborn Conn Docherty, raw as a fresh wound, lies between his parents in their tenement room, with no birthright but a life's labour in the pits of his small town. 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, McIlvanney's Docherty is a modern classic.
'His face made a fist at the world. The twined remnant of umbilicus projected vulnerably. Hands, feet and prick. He had come equipped for the job.' Newborn Conn Docherty, raw as a fresh wound, lies between his parents in their tenement room, with no birthright but a life's labour in the pits of his small town. 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, McIlvanney's Docherty is a modern classic.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Canons
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Canons
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782119616
SKU
V9781782119616
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About William McIlvanney
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.
Reviews for Docherty (Canons)
Intense, witty and beautifully wrought
Telegraph
He has a hard muscular quality to his writing . . . His phrases hammer against you like a collier's pick
The Times
Here a human history is mined with humour and a clenching sense of its sombre inequities: man's squat but ... Read more
Telegraph
He has a hard muscular quality to his writing . . . His phrases hammer against you like a collier's pick
The Times
Here a human history is mined with humour and a clenching sense of its sombre inequities: man's squat but ... Read more