A Glasgow Trilogy: The Boy Who Wanted Peace; Grace and Miss Partridge; MR Alfred M. A. Main Edition Contributor(s): Friel, George (Author), Jarvie, Gordon (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0862418852 ISBN-13: 9780862418854 Publisher: Canongate Books OUR PRICE: $27.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1999 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Canongate |
Physical Information: 1.41" H x 5.02" W x 7.71" (1.04 lbs) 608 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. 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. |