From Scenes Like These
by Gordon Williams
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The lost twentieth-century Scottish cult classic, shortlisted for the first-ever Booker Prize, with an introduction by James Robertson. It's the west of Scotland in the 1950s. New houses are going up. Factories are opening. But Dunky Logan, a 15-year-old brought up in a tenement flat in working-class Kilcaddie, is ditching school to be a labourer on a local farm. Dead set on becoming a hard case, he wants to work shoulder to shoulder with so-called "real men." Irish Catholic Mary O'Donnell show more arrives at the farmhouse as the new maid. She is pregnant, no boyfriend in sight. But she's smart, and she has a plan to get herself up in the world. As Dunky is swallowed up by a vicious cycle of violence, betrayal, and booze, Mary becomes entangled in a savage family feud. Now there's no going back, not for either of them. show lessTags
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Man Booker Prize Longlist 1969
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- Canonical title
- From Scenes Like These
- Original title
- From Scenes Like These
- Original publication date
- 1968 (autumn) (autumn)
- People/Characters
- Dunky Logan; Blackie McCann
- Important places
- Craig's Farm
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- (3.50)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
- 3
