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Before World War Two the city was in decline and only in the 1970s,
with the advent of new technologies, did Dundee's regeneration
begin. Against this background of profound change, the author gives
a remarkable account of the rich daily life of Dundee. He recalls
important events and individuals and offers keen insights into the
processes of development and recovery. Modern Dundee will be
evocative reading for anyone who knows the city and has lived there
during the post-war years, and it will also serve as a valuable
introduction to its immediate history.
This new edition of the critically-acclaimed biography of Alexander
Trocchi has been revised, extended and updated since its first
publication in 1991 when it helped to create new interest in the
celebrated - and notorious - author of Young Adam and Cain's Book.
It was highly influential, led to the reprinting of his novels and
inspired a wave of new writers to discover Trocchi for themselves.
A story of heartbreak and pain, the minutiae of squalor, tragedy,
obsession, of chemical addictions, sexual experimentations,
promiscuity and desertion, suicide - and literary genius. So begins
this account of one of Britain's most remarkable literary figures.
It traces his childhood in war-time Glasgow, his literary
apprenticeship in Paris with Beckett, Ionesco and Sartre, his move
to New York then Venice Beach among the leaders of the Beat
movement. Trocchi charmed and haunted all who met him. ... a
strange and saddening book... Trocchi... experimenting with drugs
and sex...left behind a trail of wrecked lives ... at least he has
been lucky in this excellent biography which conveys something of
his charm and charisma." COLIN WILSON, Literary Review
Who wouldn't like to make so much money you could give up work and
spend your days lazing on a beach? But how far would you go to make
your dream come true? Three St Andrews' University graduates fond
of magic mushrooms become terrorists, kidnap vulnerable elderly
people, indulge in crude heart surgery and threaten the government
with a 'dirty bomb' extortion plot from their lair in rat-infested
tunnels 200 feet under central London. If Hunter S. Thompson,
Thomas De Quincey and Flann O'Brien could have got together to
write a crime comedy this would be it...An anarchic comedy of
terrorists as stoned bunglers whose strategy seems to have been
gleaned from the pages of the Beano.
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