Weekend

ISBN-13: 9781782113065 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str.

William McIlvanney

Opis

"Illuminating and thought-provoking." --Irvine Welsh In a Victorian mansion hotel on an island, a group of English Literature lecturers and students gather for a residential weekend. The weekend proves to be a major turning point in the emotional lives of several people--just not quite in the way any of them expected.

Recenzje

The great McIlvanney themes - class, guilt, the power of the book, the difficulty of goodness - are all there, seething under the surface Stuart Kelly Daily Telegraph

O autorze

WILLIAM McILVANNEY's first novel, Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association. Strange Loyalties, the third in the Detective Laidlaw trilogy, won the Glasgow Herald's People's Prize. McIlvanney died in December 2015.