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Growing Up in the West

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Growing Up in the West presents four very different and memorably vivid accounts of what it was to be young and growing up in Glasgow and the west of Scotland from the 1930s to the 1960s. Edwin Muir's Poor Tom tells of a young man's struggle to come to terms with the slow death of his brother in the city slums of a culturally impoverished Scotland. In Fernie Brae, J. F. Hendry celebrates the growth and education of a sensitive in a novel reminiscent of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Gordon Williams' novel From Scenes Like These tells a grimmer story as its young protagonist eventually succumbs to a culture of drink and violence where the harshness of life on the land sits next to industrial sprawl: "From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs." Set in the Clydeside shipyards, the wryly observant and humorous style of Tom Gallacher's Apprentice strikes a happier note from the 1960s. Introduced by Liam McIlvanney.

Language: English

Pages: 800

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Canongate UK

Release: February 01, 2003

ISBN: 1841952621

ISBN 13: 9781841952628

Growing Up in the West

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Growing Up in the West presents four very different and memorably vivid accounts of what it was to be young and growing up in Glasgow and the west of Scotland from the 1930s to the 1960s. Edwin Muir's Poor Tom tells of a young man's struggle to come to terms with the slow death of his brother in the city slums of a culturally impoverished Scotland. In Fernie Brae, J. F. Hendry celebrates the growth and education of a sensitive in a novel reminiscent of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Gordon Williams' novel From Scenes Like These tells a grimmer story as its young protagonist eventually succumbs to a culture of drink and violence where the harshness of life on the land sits next to industrial sprawl: "From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs." Set in the Clydeside shipyards, the wryly observant and humorous style of Tom Gallacher's Apprentice strikes a happier note from the 1960s. Introduced by Liam McIlvanney.

Language: English

Pages: 800

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Canongate UK

Release: February 01, 2003

ISBN: 1841952621

ISBN 13: 9781841952628

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