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From Scenes Like These

The Rediscovered Scottish 20th-Century Classic

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From Scenes Like These

Auteur(s): Gordon M. Williams
Narrateur(s): Chris Reilly
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Shortlisted for the first ever Booker Prize

'A masterpiece' - Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain

'An extraordinary novel' - Michael Magee, author of Close to Home

'It deserves its modern classic status' - The Times

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 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.

With an introduction by James Robertson

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Ce que les critiques en disent

<b>An elegy to ordinary lives. A forgotten classic entirely deserving of a place in the canon of great social realism novels of the twentieth century.</b> A raw, unsparing tale of coming of age, of masculinity in crisis, of farm workers holding on as post-war Britain encroaches upon them . . . <b>A masterpiece of time and place that looks you square in the eye and demands to be read</b> (Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo)
<b><i>From Scenes Like These</i> is an extraordinary novel, full of rage and despair, but joy too, and moments of profound beauty</b> (Michael Magee, author of Close to Home)
<b>A devastating study of 1950s Scottish adolescence</b> by one of the most consummate stylists of the whole post-war era. From Scenes Like These is a<b> genuine lost classic just waiting to be rediscovered by a new generation of readers</b> (DJ Taylor, author of Orwell: The New Life)
<b>What impresses most is its harsh authenticity . . . Williams gets across the pains and perplexities of adolescent desire, guilt and aspiration convincingly and without literary frills</b>
<b>Raw and vigorous, harsh and authentic</b>
<b>A remarkable talent</b>
<b>A rare, raw, meaty novel</b>
<b>A deep insight into the springs of violence</b>
<b>One of the finest British novels of its era. A landmark in postwar fiction. A brave and brilliant book </b> (Liam McIlvanney, author of The Quaker)
<b>A coming-of-age novel that positively crackles with fury and frustration, <i>From Scenes Like These </i>deserves a place among the classics of twentieth century Scottish literature </b> (Malachy Tallack, author of That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz)
<b>I loved it - it gets to the heart of questions around community, masculinity and opportunity in post-war rural Scotland. Reading the novel is to be reminded of how much has changed, and how little. </b> (Tom Newlands, author of Only Here, Only Now)
<b><i>From Scenes Like These </i>seems set to reclaim its rightful place in the Scottish literary canon.</b> With themes of language, identity, class and, particularly, masculinity all tightly intertwined,<b> it&#39;s as relevant today as it ever was</b> (Alistair Braidwood, SNACK)
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