Edwin Muir - POOR TOM, J.F. Hendry - FERNIE BRAE, Gordon M.
Williams - FROM SCENES LIKE THESE, Tom Gallacher - APPRENTICE.
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. 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. Fernie Brae 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's novel 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 Apprentice strikes a happier note from the 1960s.
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