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Growing Up In The West: Poor Tom: Fernie Brae (A Scottish Childhood): From Scenes Like These: Apprentice
Edwin Muir
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Description for Growing Up In The West: Poor Tom: Fernie Brae (A Scottish Childhood): From Scenes Like These: Apprentice
Paperback. Presents four different accounts of what it was to be young and growing up in Glasgow and the west of Scotland, from the 1930s to the 1960s. This title tells a story of how its young protagonist eventually succumbs to a culture of drink and violence where the harshness of life on the land sits next to industrial sprawl. Num Pages: 744 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 46. Weight in Grams: 578.
Edwin Muir - POOR TOM, J.F. Hendry - FERNIE BRAE, Gordon M. Williams - FROM SCENES LIKE THESE, Tom Gallacher - APPRENTICE.
Growing Up in the West presents four very different and memorably vivid accounts of what it was to be young and growing up in Glasgow and the west of Scotland, from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Poor Tom tells of a young man's struggle to come to terms with the slow death of his brother in the city slums of a culturally impoverished Scotland. Fernie Brae celebrates the growth and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
744
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
744
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841952628
SKU
V9781841952628
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-47
About Edwin Muir
Born in Orkney in 1887, Edwin Muir is best known as a poet. When he was fourteen his family moved to Glasgow, and Poor Tom reflects something of the trauma of that experience. J.F. Hendry was born IN Glasgow in 1912. He was an influential poet and editor of the New Apocalypse movement in the 1940s, along ... Read more
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