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The Big Man
William McIlvanney
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Description for The Big Man
Paperback. The big man is Dan Scoular, a legend of physical prowess in a decaying Ayrshire mining community. When a bare-knuckle fight offers both money and a purpose, he finds it turns into a monumental struggle to keep his heritage and integrity intact. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
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The big man is Dan Scoular, a legend of physical prowess in a decaying Ayrshire mining community. When a bare-knuckle fight offers both money and a purpose, he finds it turns into a monumental struggle to keep his heritage and integrity intact.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782113027
SKU
V9781782113027
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-12
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 The Big Man
Inspiring and harshly funny. As in Orwell at his fiercest best, McIlvanney's outrage is all the more potent for being tranquil. Grand fiction that reads as truly as fact
Mail on Sunday
A vivid transcription of a small town and the people who live there . . . Wry, funny, tender, largely unsentimental and ... Read more
Mail on Sunday
A vivid transcription of a small town and the people who live there . . . Wry, funny, tender, largely unsentimental and ... Read more