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The Big Man

The Big Man

by WilliamMcIlvanney (Author)

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    Paperback 2014

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Synopsis

AS SEEN IN THE BIG MAN STARRING LIAM NEESON The big man is Dan Scoular, a legend of physical prowess in a decaying Ayrshire mining community. When a bare-knuckle fight offers both money and a purpose, he finds it turns into a monumental struggle to keep his heritage and integrity intact.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 272
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 02 Jan 2014
ISBN 10: 1782113029
ISBN 13: 9781782113027
Book Overview: 'Like Docherty, another masterpiece' The Scotsman

Media Reviews
Inspiring and harshly funny. As in Orwell at his fiercest best, McIlvanney's outrage is all the more potent for being tranquil. Grand fiction that reads as truly as fact * * Mail on Sunday * *
A vivid transcription of a small town and the people who live there . . . Wry, funny, tender, largely unsentimental and very readable * * The Times * *
Confirms his reputation as the most incisive observer of working-class Scottish life * * Guardian * *
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.