by Bill Duncan (Author)
From the enclosed, austere fishing community of Broughty Ferry to the implacably encroaching tower-blocks of nearby Dundee, Bill Duncan's narrative resonates with the voices of the living and the dead. Haunting, evocative and eccentric, THE SMILING SCHOOL FOR CALVINISTS memorably conjures up a traditional community reluctantly confronting the modern world.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 222
Edition: New
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 04 Feb 2002
ISBN 10: 0747557578
ISBN 13: 9780747557579
Book Overview: Duncan is a startling, humourous, new voice in Scottish fiction. 'Bill Duncan could well end up doing for Dundee what Borges did for Buenos Aires' Don Paterson 'Deadpan, incredible stories the poet Don Paterson is right in comparing Duncan to Borges gross and surreal comedy, as well as touching yet honest evocations of teenage years' Nicholas Lezard, GUARDIAN