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Last Dance at the Wrecker´s Ball
Robert Douglas
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Description for Last Dance at the Wrecker´s Ball
Paperback. The third novel in Robert Douglas' much-loved Glaswegian trilogy will delight readers with its blend of humour, tragedy, and vivid sense of place. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 334.
Glasgow, 1971. The old way of life is under threat for the tight-knit community in Dalbeattie Street, Maryhill. The shadow of the wrecker's ball looms large over their homes, and they must face the choice of moving to a new estate or dispersing throughout the city.
But powerful friendships refuse to be broken. These characters have gone through too much together to be destroyed by some measly planning scheme. They'll face this with the same inimitable Scottish humour and strength of spirit that have carried them through other tough times.
Douglas' vivid portrait of Seventies Glasgow recreates, in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Scotland, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780755380312
SKU
V9780755380312
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99-50
About Robert Douglas
Robert Douglas retired, aged fifty-five, in 1994. He intended to paint, write short stories and lie about the house watching old films. A one-off article he wrote about six weeks spent with a condemned man in Bristol prison led to him being told `You should write.` His first book - the bestselling NIGHT SONG OF THE LAST TRAM - is ... Read more
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