Swing Hammer Swing! - Couverture rigide

Torrington, Jeff

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0151874271 ISBN 13 : 9780151874279

Editeur : Harcourt Brace International, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Torrington Jeff

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

' Swing Hammer Swing! is a great novel' James Kelman

'A gamey, pungent, vulgar sprawl of a novel, somewhere in that hinterland where Damon Runyon meets James Joyce' Robert Carver, Observer

'This tale of a week in the life of Tam Clay, Gorbals slum-dweller, father-in-waiting, and wordsmith manque, is funny from beginning to end...As Tam stumbles through the drink-sodden world of the Gorbals underclass of the sixties, when a house in Castlemilk was an ambition, he embarks on a mini-odyssey of self-discovery while blinding the reader with literary legerdemain' Ian Black, The Herald

' Swing Hammer Swing!' is a seriously good novel. Critics have rightly claimed that he does for Glasgow what James Joyce did for Dublin' Stephen Pile, Daily Telegraph

'A crazily good read...this fantastic first novel' Miranda France, Scotland on Sunday

Revue de presse

"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 for striking off memorable scenes, that its appearance at any time would be welcomed . . . It prompts reflection on how much it would have benefited Scottish writers if 20 years ago a novel had been published with Jeff Torrington's absolute lack of compromise or temporising explanation in the use of Glasgow material and dialect" (The Scotsman)

"This might be the Gorbals, and the banter might be exchanged on the steps of tramp-haunted urinals, but the reference points are Nietzsche, Pascal, Chekhov and Sartre'" (Independent)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harcourt Brace International
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0151874271
• ISBN 13: 9780151874279
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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