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Blackden

English · Paperback / Softback

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Duncan McLean has been called "Scotland's answer to Roddy Doyle" (Cosmopolitan), but he has his own unique, scruffy voice full of quirky humor and surreal images. In the highland town of Blackden, things have gotten overheated despite being overtaken by the chill of winter. Inside the head of eighteen-year-old Patrick Hunter, an auctioneer's assistant, the blood is boiling. Fueled by a potent mix of yankee doodle pie and beer, Patrick spends a November weekend on his own when his off-balanced mother goes to the city. Racing around the hills and dens of his hometown, he is half in escape from worn-out friends, drudging work, and painful memories, and half in pursuit of a girl, his father's ghost, and a new life. "Brilliantly funny: fast, sharp, constant banter, even when the narrator is only talking to himself." Times Literary Supplement "A hilarious and touching insight into the mind of a young man, balanced between naivety and maturity." The List"

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Duncan McLean is the author of Bucket of Tongues, Bunker Man, and Lone Star Swing. He lives on the island of Orkney.

Summary

Although winter has overtaken the Scottish Highlands town of Blackden, 18-year-old Patrick Hunter's brain is boiling. When his off-balanced mother leaves for a weekend, the teen spends his time racing from the drudgery of small-town life in pursuit of sex, fun, and a witches' Sabbath.

Product details

Authors Mclean, Duncan McLean
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.2000
 
EAN 9780393319750
ISBN 978-0-393-31975-0
No. of pages 238
Dimensions 140 mm x 210 mm x 14 mm
Weight 332 g
Series Norton Paperback
Norton Paperback
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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