Revue de presse
'Carl MacDougall's new collection is brimming with the qualities we've come to expect from this important Scottish writer: beautiful writing, real people, poignant and wounded like us, rich emotional wisdom, and a lovely wit.' --Anne Lamott, author of Blue Shoe and Imperfect Birds
'...the sheer accomplishment of the storytelling and the lively variety of writing styles make it a compelling read' -- Daily Mail
'A towering figure... has lost none of his distinctive style or ability to shock... MacDougall creates a complex world over a dozen deftly crafted pages... [a] masterful collection.' -- Scotsman
'The towering voice of Scottish literature returns with this stunning collection... told without melodrama, with MacDougall's cleanly-written prose... This is a triumphant return to fiction after an absence of a decade for this award-winning writer' -- Scottish Field
'Brutal but brilliant' --Herald
Présentation de l'éditeur
A long-awaited new collection of stories from one of Scotland s most acclaimed writers.
A young man returns from London, facing the prospect of reunion with a young daughter he's never met. A woman recounts her family's doomed attempt to emigrate from Poland to America 70 years before. A creative writing tutor is shocked by the story of one of his students, who is connected to a past atrocity in Bosnia. A former architect fights a losing battle with alcoholism and the ghosts from his past.
Here is a new collection of brilliant stories from the multi-award winning elder statesman of Scottish literature, exploring themes of poverty, migration, alienation, accountability and alcoholism, with an impressive depth and emotional range.
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