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- Title
- Swing Hammer Swing
- Author
- Torrington, Jef
- Publisher
- Random House UK
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- 48075115
- Signed
- 9/14/2026 12:45:31 PM
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0749397470
- ISBN 13
- 9780749397470
- Edition
- 1789389931.
- Seller catalogs
- 3, 9780749397470, U
A riotous urban picaresque, richly laced with black humour, Jeff Torrington's comic novel marks a milestone in Scottish literature.
'This tale of a week in the life of Tam Clay, Gorbals slum-dweller, father-in-waiting and wordsmith manqué, is funny from beginning to end... As Tam stumbles through the drink-sodden world of the Gorbals underclass of the sixties, when a house in Castlemilk was an ambition, he embarks on a mini-odyssey of self-discovery while blinding the reader with literary legerdemain' - Ian Black, The Herald.
'This tale of a week in the life of Tam Clay, Gorbals slum-dweller, father-in-waiting and wordsmith manqué, is funny from beginning to end... As Tam stumbles through the drink-sodden world of the Gorbals underclass of the sixties, when a house in Castlemilk was an ambition, he embarks on a mini-odyssey of self-discovery while blinding the reader with literary legerdemain' - Ian Black, The Herald.
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About the Author
Jeff Torrington (31 December 1935 – 11 May 2008) was a novelist from Glasgow in Scotland. His novels draw on the changing face of modern Scotland. Swing Hammer Swing (1992) was situated in the demolition of the old Gorbals and The Devil's Carousel (1998) drew on the decline of a fictionalized version of the Rootes/Chrysler car plant at Linwood. Swing Hammer Swing was Whitbread Book of the Year in 1992.
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