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Arnott, Peter

 
9781908251473: Moon Country

Synopsis

Fifteen years ago, Tommy Hunter committed a terrible crime. Now pursued by his own bad memories and the attentions of his criminal companions of the past (as well as the present-day curiosity of the boys and girls in blue), Tommy is trying to put his family back together by the unlikely means of kidnapping them with the added allurement of a bag of stolen money. Moon Country is a wild and woolly Scottish Western, a family road movie, a slightly insane hermeneutic treatise on nationhoodand belonging, and a definitely lunatic quest for personal redemption. It's also pretty funny. It is quite unlike anything you've ever read before.Peter Arnott has squared the circle by combining the demotic, the entertaining, the literary and the chaotic all within a surprisingly ordered structure. This is a book that stays with you once you've finished reading it: the many connections continue to emerge.

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À propos de l'auteur

Born in Glasgow in 1962, Peter Arnott began his career as a playwright in Scotlandin May 1985 with the simultaneous premieres of The Boxer Benny Lynch and White Rose. Forty-something plays later, he has won the Theatre Management, Fringe First and the Creative Scotland Award in 2007. He has been writer in residence at the Traverse, the Tron and the National Library of Scotland. His plays have been performed in London, Moscow, Melbourne and New York. Moon Country is his first novel.

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