From Scenes Like These

The Rediscovered Scottish 20th-Century Classic

AvGordon M. Williams

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Engelska, 2025

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Shortlisted for the first ever Booker Prize'A masterpiece' – Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain'An extraordinary novel' – Michael Magee, author of Close to Home'It deserves its modern classic status' – The TimesIt’s the west of Scotland in the 1950s. New houses are going up. Factories are opening. But Dunky Logan, a 15-year-old brought up in a tenement flat in working-class Kilcaddie, is ditching school to be a labourer on a local farm. Dead set on becoming a hard case, he wants to work shoulder to shoulder with so-called real men.Irish Catholic Mary O’Donnell arrives at the farmhouse as the new maid. She is pregnant - no boyfriend in sight. But she’s smart, and she has a plan to get herself up in the world.As Dunky is swallowed up by a vicious cycle of violence, betrayal, and booze, Mary becomes entangled in a savage family feud.Now there’s no going back, not for either of them.With an introduction by James Robertson.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-05-29
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781035073573
Förlag:Pan Macmillan

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Gordon M. Williams was born in Paisley in 1934. After he completed national service with the Royal Air Force in Germany, Willams began his career as a reporter for the Johnstone Advertiser, before moving to England and becoming an author in the mid-1960s. His novels include Walk Don’t Walk, Big Morning Blues, The Camp, The Upper Pleasure Garden and From Scenes Like These, which was shortlisted for the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969. His novel The Siege of Trencher’s Farm was adapted into the film Straw Dogs, directed by Sam Peckinpah.Working at the arts magazine Scene, Williams shared an office with the playwright Tom Stoppard. With Terry Venables, he wrote the beloved football novel They Used to Play on Grass, and later, while working as a commercial manager for Chelsea FC, the Hazell detective series, which was adapted for television in 1978. He died in 2017.

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An elegy to ordinary lives. A forgotten classic entirely deserving of a place in the canon of great social realism novels of the twentieth century. A raw, unsparing tale of coming of age, of masculinity in crisis, of farm workers holding on as post-war Britain encroaches upon them . . . A masterpiece of time and place that looks you square in the eye and demands to be read