Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1846976863
ISBN-13
9781846976865
Edition
Reissue
Publisher
Birlinn General
Imprint
Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 5th, 2024
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
314 grams
Dimensions
12.90 x 19.90 x 2.90 cms
Product Classification:
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)Sagas
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Set in nineteen-sixties Glasgow, The Dear Green Place is an absorbing portrait of the struggles and conflicts of a working-class hero and would-be novelist Mat Craig whose desire to define himself as an artist creates social and family tensions. Published in 1966, it won the Guardian Fiction Book of the Year and Yorkshire Post’s Best First Work.
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FICTION OF THE YEAR AWARDONE OF THE LISTS BEST SCOTTISH BOOKS OF ALL TIMESet in nineteen-sixties Glasgow, this novel portrays the struggles and conflicts of young working-class hero and would-be novelist Mat Craig, whose desire to define himself as an artist creates social and family tensions.This classic of Scottish twentieth-century literature is renowned for its vivid descriptions of Glasgow and the fight for individual creative expression; it remains as authentic and relevant more than fifty years after its original publication.Includes an Introduction by Alasdair Gray as well as Archie Hinds unfinished novel Fur Sadie and one of his essays Men of the Clyde.*An exciting first novel worth a dozen more seasoned efforts - GuardianThe best novel ever written - SkinnyA touching insight into human strength and frailty - Daily Mail
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