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Remedy is None

Remedy is None

by WilliamMcIlvanney (Author)

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Synopsis

Charlie Grant, an intense young student at Glasgow University watches his father die. Overwhelmed by the memory of this humble yet dignified death, Charlie is left to face his own fierce resentment for his adulterous mother. With shades of Hamlet and Camus, William McIlvanney's first novel is a revelatory portrait of youth, of society and of family.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 02 Jan 2014
ISBN 10: 1782113045
ISBN 13: 9781782113041
Book Overview: Winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

Media Reviews
Remedy is None . . . is a strong study of a young man's mind, and has both humourous social observations and an explosive grimness -- Edwin Morgan
William McIlvanney paints a world of harsh reality, but does so in language that is strangely beautiful and hauntingly poetic -- Craig Russell
The finest Scottish novelist of our time * * 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.