Walking Wounded: A Graithnock Mosaic - Hardcover

McIlvanney, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 034026330X ISBN 13: 9780340263303

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division, 1989

Synopsis

"Walking Wounded" demonstrates the author's sense of living people and how they cope with the hidden dramas of their lives. His characters are the brave casualties of life in Graithrock who, even when defeated, live on and battle on with humour and resource. The author also wrote "Remedy is None", "A Gift from Nessus", "Docherty", "The Big Man", "Laidlaw" and "The Papers of Tony Veitch".

About this title

Book Description:

'A superb collection: a series of brief lives which McIlvanney passes through the eye of a very sharp needle' Literary Review

About the Author:

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. He died in December 2015.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 034026330X
• ISBN 13: 9780340263303
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1