The Dear Green Place

(Paperback, Reissue)

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Set in nineteen sixties Glasgow, The Dear Green Place is an absorbing portrait of the struggles and conflicts of a 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 an absorbing and moving story, with vivid descriptions of the city around Mat; it remains as authentic and relevant nearly fifty years on.

Reviews

'An exciting first novel worth a dozen more seasoned efforts'

* Guardian *

'The only other twentieth-century novel I know that places a writers struggle in an equally well imagined city is Nabokovs novel The Gift'

-- Alasdair Gray

'The best novel ever written'

* The Skinny *

'One of the few novels about writers and writing that actually contributes something fresh and different where most are simply self-indulgent'

-- Rodge Glass

'A touching insight into human strength and frailty'

* Daily Mail *

'It remains the quintessential Glasgow novel and one of the greatest portrayals of the struggle of the artist ever written'

-- Gavin Wallace

'A seminal novel of working man's aspiration'

* Publishing News *

Author Bio

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 Posts Award for Best Book.