Edwin Muir

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Growing Up in the West: Poor Tom: Fernie Brae (a Scottish Childhood): From Scenes Like These: Apprentice (Main)Paperback - Main, 15 February 2003

Growing Up in the West: Poor Tom: Fernie Brae (a Scottish Childhood): From Scenes Like These: Apprentice (Main)
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Part of Series
Canongate Classics
Print Length
744 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Canongate Books
Date Published
15 Feb 2003
ISBN-10
1841952621
ISBN-13
9781841952628

Description

Edwin Muir - POOR TOM, J.F. Hendry - FERNIE BRAE, Gordon M. Williams - FROM SCENES LIKE THESE, Tom Gallacher - APPRENTICE.

Growing Up in the West presents four very different and memorably vivid accounts of what it was to be young and growing up in Glasgow and the west of Scotland, from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Poor Tom tells of a young man's struggle to come to terms with the slow death of his brother in the city slums of a culturally impoverished Scotland. Fernie Brae celebrates the growth and education of a sensitive in a novel reminiscent of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Gordon Williams's novel tells a grimmer story as its young protagonist eventually succumbs to a culture of drink and violence where the harshness of life on the land sits next to industrial sprawl: 'From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs.' Set in the Clydeside shipyards, the wryly observant and humorous style of Apprentice strikes a happier note from the 1960s.

Product Details

Authors:
Edwin MuirJ F HendryGordon M WilliamsTom Gallacher
Book Edition:
Main
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
15 February 2003
Dimensions:
19.3 x 12.7 x 4.83 cm
Genre:
Coming of Age
ISBN-10:
1841952621
ISBN-13:
9781841952628
Language:
English
Location:
Edinburgh
Pages:
744
Publisher:
Weight:
635.03 gm

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