The Changeling: 22 (Canongate Classics)

by Alan Spence (Introduction), Alan Spence (Introduction), Robin Jenkins (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $5.25

  Tom Curdie is the product of a Glasgow slum and the most ill-behaved boy in his chool. But when his teacher spots an uncanny quality of magnanimity in his pupil and takes him on holiday, the child's true colours emerge.

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $8.03

  Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teachers admit that he is clever, but only one, Charles Forbes, sees an uncanny warmth in his reticence and in his seemingly insolent smile. So he decides to take Tom on holiday with his own family ...This powerful novel explores one of Jenkins' consistent and most fruitful themes - how goodness and innocence is compromised when faced with the pressures of growing up and becoming part of society.