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A Glasgow Trilogy - The Boy Who Wanted Peace; Grace and Miss Partridge; Mr Alfred M. A. (Paperback, Main)
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A Glasgow Trilogy - The Boy Who Wanted Peace; Grace and Miss Partridge; Mr Alfred M. A. (Paperback, Main)
Series: Canongate Classics
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List price R593
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Discovery Miles 4 820
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Distinguished by irony, compassion and the author's own dry wit,
these three novels paint a memorable picture of life in the
streets, schools and tenements of Glasgow in the 1950s and 60s.
With a unique vision of loneliness, old age, sexual longing, hot
young blood and youth's casual cruelty, George Friel's books
explore a dark comedy of tangled communication, human need and
fading community. All these elements come together in the humorous
parable of greed, religion and slum youth that is The Boy Who
Wanted Peace; in the fate of old and disturbed Miss Partridge who
is obsessed with the innocence of young Grace; and in the mental
collapse of Mr Alfred, a middle-aged schoolteacher who is in love
with one of this pupils. The humour, realism and moral concern of
Friel's work clearly anticipate and stand alongside the novels of
Alan Spence, Alasdair Gray, William McIlvanney and James Kelman.
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