Docherty - Couverture souple

McIlvanney, William

4,11

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Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0340407573 ISBN 13 : 9780340407578

Editeur : Sceptre, 1996

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Revue de presse :

William McIlvanney paints a world of harsh reality, but does so in language that is strangely beautiful and hauntingly poetic. His work defies pigeonholing in any genre: this is simply great writing from a master of his craft (CRAIG RUSSELL)

Here a human history is mined with humour and a clenching sense of its sombre inequities: man's squat but lengthening shadow in the sun (Guardian)

He has a hard muscular quality to his writing. Some of his phrases hammer against you like a collier's pick (The Times)

An intense, witty and beautifully wrought novel (Daily Telegraph) --Daily Telegraph

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

His face made a fist at the world. The twined remnant of umbilicus projected vulnerably. Hands, feet and prick. He had come equipped for the job.

Newborn Conn Docherty, raw as a fresh wound, lies between his parents in their tenement room, with no birthright but a life's labour in the pits of his small town. But the world is changing, and, lying next to him, Conn's father Tam has decided that his son's life will be different from his own.

Gritty, dark and tender, McIlvanney's Docherty is a modern classic.

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