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Weekend

(Paperback, Main)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Weekend

Contributors:

By (Author) William McIlvanney

ISBN:

9781782113065

Publisher:

Canongate Books

Imprint:

Canongate Books

Publication Date:

1st April 2014

UK Publication Date:

2nd January 2014

Edition:

Main

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Dewey:

823.914

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

272

Dimensions:

Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 17mm

Weight:

184g

Description

In a Victorian mansion hotel on a Scottish island, a group of English Literature lecturers and students from Glasgow 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.

Reviews

* 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 * Remarkable ... everything in the novel is illuminated by the play of a subtle, sceptical and yet affirmative intelligence -- Allan Massie Scotland on Sunday * Wonderfully witty and wistful Daily Mail * William McIlvanney paints a world of harsh reality, but does so in language that is strangely beautiful and hauntingly poetic -- Craig Russell

Author Bio

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.

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