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Docherty

Docherty

by WilliamMcIlvanney (Author)

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    Paperback 2013

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Synopsis

Tam Docherty's youngest son, Conn, is born at the end of 1903 in a small working-class town in the west of Scotland. Tam will stop at nothing to make sure that life and the pits don't swallow up his boy, the way it did him. Courageous and questioning, Docherty emerges as a leader of almost unshakable strength, but in a close-knit community tradition is a powerful opponent.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 28 Nov 2013
ISBN 10: 1782111786
ISBN 13: 9781782111788
Book Overview: Winner of the Whitbread prize now in a new paperback edition

Media Reviews
William McIlvanney paints a world of harsh reality, but does so in language that is strangely beautiful and hauntingly poetic. His work defies pigeonholing in any genre: this is simply great writing from a master of his craft -- CRAIG RUSSELL
Here a human history is mined with humour and a clenching sense of its sombre inequities: man's squat but lengthening shadow in the sun * * Guardian * *
He has a hard muscular quality to his writing. Some of his phrases hammer against you like a collier's pick * * The Times * *
An intense, witty and beautifully wrought novel * * Daily Telegraph * *
Author Bio
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.