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The Dear Green Place
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The Dear Green Place—and Fur Sadie
A landmark Guardian Fiction of the Year Award winner
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About the Ebook
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FICTION OF THE YEAR AWARD
ONE OF THE LIST'S BEST SCOTTISH BOOKS OF ALL TIME
Set in nineteen-sixties Glasgow, this novel portrays the struggles and conflicts of young working-class hero and would-be novelist Mat Craig, whose desire to define himself as an artist creates social and family tensions.
This classic of Scottish twentieth-century literature is renowned for its vivid descriptions of Glasgow and the fight for individual creative expression; it remains as authentic and relevant more than fifty years after its original publication.
Includes an Introduction by Alasdair Gray as well as Archie Hind's unfinished novel Fur Sadie and one of his essays 'Men of the Clyde'.
Why You'll Love This Ebook
- Discover the Guardian Fiction of the Year Award-winning classic
- Explore working-class Glasgow life in landmark fiction
- Engage with one of Scotland's most celebrated novels
- Read another celebrated title from Polygon - an imprint of Birlinn Ltd
Reviews
'An exciting first novel worth a dozen more seasoned efforts' The Guardian
'The only other twentieth-century novel I know that places a writer's struggle in an equally well imagined city is Nabokov's The Gift' Alasdair Gray
'It remains the quintessential Glasgow novel and one of the greatest portrayals of the struggle of the artist ever written' Gavin Wallace
'One of the few novels about writers and writing that actually contributes something fresh and different' The List, Best Scottish Books of All Time
'A touching insight into human strength and frailty' Daily Mail
'Winner of the Guardian Fiction of the Year Award'
About the Author
Archie Hind was born in 1928. Educated in Glasgow, where he has spent most of his life, his jobs have included bus driving, glass sculpting and data processing. He studied writing for a year at Newbattle College under Edwin Muir and attended WEA lectures by Jack Rillie of the English Department at Glasgow University; both men were to influence him and his writing. The Dear Green Place first published in 1966 is Hind's only novel and won both the Guardian Fiction Award and the Yorkshire Post's Award for Best Book.
Publication Details
Publisher: Polygon (an imprint of Birlinn Ltd)
Publication Date: 01 September 2011
Print Length: 352 pages (Ebook edition)
ISBN (Ebook): 9780857901507
Format: Ebook
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