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Synopsis
John-John wants to escape his past. But the legacy of brutality left by his bare-knuckle boxer father, King of the Gypsies, Mac Wisdom, overshadows his life. His new job as an ice cream man should offer freedom, but instead pulls him into the dark recesses of a northern town where his family name is mud. When he attempts to trade prejudice, parole officers and local gangs for his green cathedral' - the rural landscape in which he seeks solace - Mac's rise and bloody downfall threatens to engulf John-John's present. Pig Iron is the story of a traveller who hasn't travelled; a young man fighting for his surname and his very survival.
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About the Author
Benjamin Myers is a multi-award winning author. BEASTINGS won The Portico Literature Prize 2015 and was long listed for The Jerwood Prize for fiction 2015. PIG IRON won the inaugural GORDON BURN Prize 2013. Benjamin Myers also won The Northern Writers Award 2014 and the Society of Authors Tom Gallon prize 2014. His novel RICHARD was a Sunday Times bestseller. He is an award winning music journalist whose work has appeared in The Guardian, New Statesman, MOJO, Caught by The River.
Review
"His poetic vernacular brims with that quality most sadly lost - humanity." - The Guardian
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- PublisherBluemoose Books Ltd
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0956687660
- ISBN 13 9780956687661
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages282
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