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Gillespie
J. Macdougall Hay
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Description for Gillespie
Paperback.
A leech, a pirate, a predator, an anti-Christ, a public benefactor and the fisherman's friend; such is Gillespie Strang in this remarkably powerful Scottish novel. Gillespie is the harsh prophet of the new breed of Scottish entrepreneur, prepared to use any means to achieve his insatiable ambition amongst the nineteenth-century fishing communities of the west coast.
John MacDougall Hay (1881-1919) was born and raised in Tarbert, Loch Fyne, on which he based the setting for Gillespie. A Church of Scotland minister, his knowledge of such communities and his sombre vision of good ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780862414276
SKU
V9780862414276
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About J. Macdougall Hay
John MacDougall Hay (1881-1919) was born and brought up in Tarbert, Loch Fyne, where his father was a steamship agent. He went to the University of Glasgow in 1898 where he was a prize-winning scholar and made his first ventures into journalism while still a student. After graduating in 1901 with an Arts degree, he trained ... Read more
Reviews for Gillespie
J. MacDougall Hay has set a tragic tale, which, for sheer relentlessness, it would be difficult to find a parallel.
The Times
... a sprawling masterpiece which thunders with truth and authenticity.
Life and Work
... it is a mighty novel, demonstrating Hay's command of sensuous descriptive narrative ... Read more
The Times
... a sprawling masterpiece which thunders with truth and authenticity.
Life and Work
... it is a mighty novel, demonstrating Hay's command of sensuous descriptive narrative ... Read more