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The Dear Green Place
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The Dear Green Place 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...
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The Dear Green Place
Set in nineteen-sixties Glasgow,The Dear Green Placeis an absorbing portrait of the struggles and conflicts of a working-class hero and would-be novelist Mat Craig whose desire to define himself as an artist creates social and family tensions. Published in 1966, it won theGuardianFiction Book of the Year and Yorkshire Post's Best First Work.
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The Dear Green Place
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'.
"An exciting first novel worth a dozen more seasoned efforts" - Guardian
"The best novel ever written" - Skinny
"A touching insight into human strength and frailty" - Daily Mail
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781846976865
Publisher: Birlinn General
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 September 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Edition: Reissue
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 317g
Pages: 352
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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.
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