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Swing Hammer Swing!
Jeff Torrington
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Description for Swing Hammer Swing!
Paperback. From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, the author chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move in. In this book, he tells about his old-timers and eccentrics, navigating his pregnant wife, frisky bedfellows and debt collectors. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 350.
From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, Tam Clay chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move in. Intersecting friends, old-timers and eccentrics, navigating his pregnant wife, frisky bedfellows and debt collectors, Tam stumbles through a derelict world on an odyssey of self-discovery. Wildly funny, outlandish and insanely ambitious – thirty years in the writing – Torrington’s pulverised ’60s Glasgow is crammed to the crevices with a blizzard of his unique and insatiable genius.
From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, Tam Clay chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move in. Intersecting friends, old-timers and eccentrics, navigating his pregnant wife, frisky bedfellows and debt collectors, Tam stumbles through a derelict world on an odyssey of self-discovery. Wildly funny, outlandish and insanely ambitious – thirty years in the writing – Torrington’s pulverised ’60s Glasgow is crammed to the crevices with a blizzard of his unique and insatiable genius.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784870126
SKU
V9781784870126
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99-99
About Jeff Torrington
Jeff Torrington (1935–2008) was born in the Gorbals, Glasgow. He had a wide-ranging career, working as a packing-case nailer, a cinema projectionist, a fruit-market porter, labourer, postman and as a fireman on the railways. He wrote novels and short stories, drawing on the changing face of modern Scotland. His first novel Swing Hammer Swing! took 30 years ... Read more
Reviews for Swing Hammer Swing!
A gamey, pungent, vulgar sprawl of a novel, somewhere in the hinterland where Damon Runyon meets James Joyce
Observer
Swing Hammer Swing! is a great novel
James Kelman
A crazily good read... this [is a] fantastic first novel
Scotland on Sunday
It is such a good novel, with such energy of language and gift ... Read more
Observer
Swing Hammer Swing! is a great novel
James Kelman
A crazily good read... this [is a] fantastic first novel
Scotland on Sunday
It is such a good novel, with such energy of language and gift ... Read more