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Morvern Callar

Morvern Callar

by Alan Warner (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 1996

    $3.86

  • Used

    Paperback 2002

    $4.20
Synopsis

It is off-season in a remote Highland sea port: twenty-one-year-old Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket, wakes one morning to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on their kitchen floor. Morvern's laconic reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does next is even more appalling...Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02 May 1996
ISBN 10: 0099586118
ISBN 13: 9780099586111
Book Overview: Brutal, erotic, jarringly poetic and rich in a blood-dark humour, Morvern Callar was the spectacular debut of an utterly original Scottish writer and winner of the Somerset Maugham Award.
 Prizes: Winner of Somerset Maugham Award 1996 and HarperCollins Biennial Religious Book Award 1995 and Ruth Hadden Memorial Award 1995 and Scottish Arts Council Book Award 1995. Shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 1997.

Media Reviews
Brilliant, tender, a stylistic dazzler -- Hilary Mantel
A dazzling achievement * Time Out *
Morvern is a brilliant creation... more than a stunning debut novel; to my mind it establishes Alan Warner as one of the most talented, original and interesting voices around -- Irvine Welsh
Morvern is a compelling creation; elusive, enigmatic and opaque. Both ordinary and extraordinary, she gleams out like onyx from a vivid, macabre and lyrical book * Guardian *
Not since Camus' The Outsider has a voice with so many angles hopped and fluttered from the pages, has a note risen to chill in its opening breath * Scotland on Sunday *
Author Bio
Alan Warner is the author of six other novels: These Demented Lands, The Sopranos, The Man Who Walks, The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven, The Stars in the Bright Sky, which was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize; and The Deadman's Pedal (2012). He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.