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Weekend
William Mcilvanney
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Description for Weekend
Paperback. In a Victorian mansion hotel on a Scottish island, a group of English Literature lecturers and students from Glasgow gather for a residential weekend. The weekend proves to be a major turning point in the emotional lives of several people - just not quite in the way any of them expected. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 195 x 17. Weight in Grams: 190.
In a Victorian mansion hotel on a Scottish island, a group of English Literature lecturers and students from Glasgow gather for a residential weekend. The weekend proves to be a major turning point in the emotional lives of several people - just not quite in the way any of them expected.
In a Victorian mansion hotel on a Scottish island, a group of English Literature lecturers and students from Glasgow gather for a residential weekend. The weekend proves to be a major turning point in the emotional lives of several people - just not quite in the way any of them expected.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782113065
SKU
V9781782113065
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5
About William Mcilvanney
William McIlvanney's first novel, Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association. Strange Loyalties, the third in the Detective Laidlaw trilogy, won the Glasgow Herald's People's Prize. He died in December 2015.
Reviews for Weekend
The great McIlvanney themes - class, guilt, the power of the book, the difficulty of goodness - are all there, seething under the surface
Stuart Kelly
Daily Telegraph
Remarkable . . . everything in the novel is illuminated by the play of a subtle, sceptical and yet affirmative intelligence
Allan Massie
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Stuart Kelly
Daily Telegraph
Remarkable . . . everything in the novel is illuminated by the play of a subtle, sceptical and yet affirmative intelligence
Allan Massie
... Read more