Morvern Callar
(Scottish Classics)
$30.20
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2015
Summary
Brutal, erotic, jarringly poetic and rich in a blood-dark humour, Morvern Callar was the spectacular debut of an utterly original Scottish writer and winner of the Somerset Maugham Award.
It is off-season in a remote Highland sea port: twenty-one-year-old Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket, wakes one morning to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on their kitchen floor. Morvern’s laconic reaction is both intriguing and immora…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784870102 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1784870102 |
| Author: | Alan Warner |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2015 |
| Weight: | 166g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Brilliant, tender, a stylistic dazzler – Hilary Mantel
A dazzling achievement * Time Out *
Morvern is a brilliant creation… more than a stunning debut novel; to my mind it establishes Alan Warner as one of the most talented, original and interesting voices around – Irvine Welsh
Morvern is a compelling creation; elusive, enigmatic and opaque. Both ordinary and extraordinary, she gleams out like onyx from a vivid, macabre and lyrical book * Guardian *
Not since Camus’ The Outsider has a voice with so many angles hopped and fluttered from the pages, has a note risen to chill in its opening breath * Scotland on Sunday *
Warner’s portrait of a Scottish rave-girl is bleak, haunting and brilliantly original – Nick Hornby
Alan Warner
Alan Warner is the author of seven novels:
- Morvern Callar (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award)
- These Demented Lands
- The Sopranos
- The Man Who Walks
- The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven
- The Stars in the Bright Sky (longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize)
- The Deadman’s Pedal (2012)
He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.
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