Ascension Day
(, New edition)
Publishing Details
Ascension Day
By (Author) Chris Dolan
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Book Publishing
17th April 2000
New edition
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Short stories
823.914
Winner of McKitterick Prize 2000
Physical Properties
224
Width 128mm, Height 12mm, Spine 197mm
169g
Description
Chris Dolan's first novel is a powerful story of a great post-industrial city and the collective imagination of its citizens - William Grant, who attempts to understand the city through mathematics; the delinquent Cannibal; Paris, dreaming on the cancer ward, and her nurse, Morag Simms. How their paths cross in this unusually real city with its sex and sadness, violence and humour is the urgent subject matter of this book, which announces Chris Dolan as an important new voice in European fiction.
Reviews
A great first novel - Guardian
Kelman, Galloway, Welsh... Should the name Chris Dolan be added to this list - The ListA fine novel... Clearly a name to watch - ObserverAuthor Bio
Chris Dolan is one of the most important new voices in Scottish fiction. He is the winner of the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Prize, and the 1999 Robert Louis Stevenson Award, and his collection of short stories, POOR ANGELS, was shortlisted for the Saltire. Also a scriptwriter and dramatist, he was the winner of an Edinburgh Fringe First with his play Sabina!, and has adapted Bernard Schlink's THE READER for stage.
