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Boyfriends and Girlfriends

Boyfriends and Girlfriends

by Douglas Dunn (Author)

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    Paperback 1996

    $3.42

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    Hardcover 1995

    $43.39
Synopsis

The stories in Boyfriends and Girlfriends are set mainly in Scotland and show an unprejudiced eye for characters and their foibles at all levels of society. 'A true short-story writer, and one with a range that makes it possible to read the entire collection without wearying of the same voice or the same thoughts . . . The reader is beguiled.' Daily Telegraph

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 272
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 08 Jan 1996
ISBN 10: 0571177107
ISBN 13: 9780571177103

Author Bio
Douglas Dunn was born in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, in 1942 and lived there until he married at the age of twenty-two. After working as a librarian in Scotland and Akron, Ohio, he studied English at Hull University, graduating in 1969. He then worked for eighteen months in the university library after which, in 1971, he became a freelance writer. In 1991 he was appointed Professor in the School of English at the University of St Andrews. As well as ten collections of poetry, including Elegies (1985), The Year's Afternoon, The Donkey's Ears (both 2000), and New Selected Poems 1964-2000 (2003), Douglas Dunn has written several radio and television plays, including Ploughman's Share and Scotsman by Moonlight. He has also edited various anthologies, including Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (2006). Douglas Dunn has won a Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and has twice been awarded prizes by the Scottish Arts Council. In 1981 he was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for St Kilda's Parliament. In January 1986 he was overall winner of the 1985 Whitbread Book of the Year Award for his collection Elegies.