The Stillman

The Stillman

by TomMcCulloch (Author)

Synopsis

Jim Drever is a man apart, his closest relationship with the machinery he monitors in the distillery where he's worked for twenty years. He treats everything else with bleakly humorous contempt: his fading marriage, the increasingly bizarre behaviour of his teenage son; his daughter's impending wedding. He can deal with all that in his own way. It's the emails from Cuba, made up of letters from his dead mother, that threaten to bring down Jim's ordered world.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 286
Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
Published: 17 Apr 2014

ISBN 10: 1908737670
ISBN 13: 9781908737670

Media Reviews
' How do the pieces of a life fit together?' This is the key question that protagonist Jim Drever has to answer as he negotiates family dysfunction, workplace rivalries and emotional journeys. In The Stillman Tom McCulloch chronicles lives veering between sourness and cynicism, energy and optimism, and does so with acute observation and wickedly black humour.' James Robertson, author of The Professor of Desire, And the Land Lay Still, The Testament of Gideon Mack, etc
Author Bio
Tom McCulloch has published poetry and short stories in various journals including Other Poetry, Northwords, NorthwordsNow, Eildon Tree, Markings, Buzzwords, and Wilderness magazine (New Zealand). He was long-listed for the Herald/ Imagining Scotland short story competition 2011.