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The Kiln
William McIlvanney
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Description for The Kiln
Paperback. Tom Docherty was seventeen in the summer of 1955. With school behind him and a summer job at a brick works, Tom had his whole life before him. Years later, alone in a rented flat in Edinburgh and lost in memories, Tom recalls the intellectual and sexual awakening of his youth. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
Tom Docherty was seventeen in the summer of 1955. With school behind him and a summer job at a brick works, Tom had his whole life before him. Years later, alone in a rented flat in Edinburgh and lost in memories, Tom recalls the intellectual and sexual awakening of his youth. In looking back, Tom discovers that only by understanding where he comes from can he make sense of his life as it is now.
Tom Docherty was seventeen in the summer of 1955. With school behind him and a summer job at a brick works, Tom had his whole life before him. Years later, alone in a rented flat in Edinburgh and lost in memories, Tom recalls the intellectual and sexual awakening of his youth. In looking back, Tom discovers that only by understanding where he comes from can he make sense of his life as it is now.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782111900
SKU
V9781782111900
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-43
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 Kiln
A pitch-perfect blend of warm lyricism, limpid observation and excruciatingly funny comedy. It is a beguilingly brilliant portrait of the artist as an adolescent
Sunday Times
On almost every page it offers matter for reflection and the sudden stab of emotion that comes from reading something that is truly evoked or created . . ... Read more
Sunday Times
On almost every page it offers matter for reflection and the sudden stab of emotion that comes from reading something that is truly evoked or created . . ... Read more