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Type

Book

Authors

Torrington, Jeff

ISBN 10

0151874271

ISBN 13

9780151874279

Tags

Contemporary, Marriage, Unemployed, Scotland--Glasgow, Novelists, Scottish, Manners and customs, Scotland--Glasgow--Gorbals

Abstract

The story of a man with lots of problems, set in Glasgow, Scotland. Thomas Clay has no job, his wife is in hospital, his home is about to be demolished and his novel hasn't been published. Winner of the 1992 Whitbread Award.

Description

Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year for 1992, Jeff Torrington's startlingly original first novel is set in Glasgow, Scotland during a single week in the late sixties. Christmas is approaching, his wife is in the maternity hospital prematurely, his building is about to be demolished. Then, even more difficulties arise. . . .

Biblio Notes

Genre/Form: Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jeff Torrington
ISBN: 0151874271 9780151874279
OCLC Number: 29519338
Awards: Whitbread Book of the Year, 1992.
Description: 406 pages ; 24 cm
Responsibility: Jeff Torrington.

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