Kane's Ladder

Alba, Carlos

ISBN 10: 1846970474 / ISBN 13: 9781846970474

Edité par Polygon, Edinburgh, 2008

A propos de cet article

First edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket is lightly marked and edges are creased and nicked. Board spine ends are bumped. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW.

N° de réf. du vendeur 549812

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Kane's Ladder
• Éditeur: Polygon, Edinburgh
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1846970474
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781846970474
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Type de livre: Used
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

It's 1975 and Britain is a country in political flux. In Glasgow the dirty old Victorian slums have been razed to the ground, replaced with brand new slums twenty storeys high. Chips are a health food and the very mention of filet mignon would spark a riot on the Govan Road. As its citizens struggle to adapt to their changing world, they wonder what will replace the steel mills and the shipyards, whether they look stupid in flares and what the lyrics of the Bay City Rollers' 'Shang-A-Lang' actually mean? Ten-year-old Steve Duff longs to be poor and neglected like his friend Wally, whose parents are incapable drunks. Frustratingly for Steve, he's saddled with a conventional, stable and middle-class family. Then, over the course of a year, his father has a fling with a barmaid and leaves home, his mother's response is to start a psychology degree, his sister is arrested for demanding money with menaces and his brother gets a girl pregnant.As if the normal indignities of growing up weren't bad enough...This is a funny touching and heart-warming debut novel that will strike a chord with anyone who has been an awkward kid at least once in their life.

À propos de l?auteur

Carlos Alba is a journalist who has worked in Scotland for the past 17 years. He was editor of The Sunday Times (Scotland) since September 2006 after five years as deputy editor. Prior to that, he was Scottish political editor of the Daily Record and education correspondent at The Herald. He has won five Scottish Press awards. He is the author of Kane's Ladder, also published by Polygon.