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Growing Up in the West: Poor Tom: Fernie Brae (a Scottish Childhood): From Scenes Like These: Apprentice Paperback - 2003
by Introduction by Liam McIlvanney; Edwin Muir; J. F. Hendry
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- Title Growing Up in the West: Poor Tom: Fernie Brae (a Scottish Childhood): From Scenes Like These: Apprentice
- Author Introduction by Liam McIlvanney; Edwin Muir; J. F. Hendry
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 744
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Canongate Books, Edinburgh
- Date 2003
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9781841952628 / 1841952621
- Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 1.9 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 4.83 cm)
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- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003427367
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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UK: Canongate Books, 2003. Soft cover. Good. 5 x 0.1 x 0.3 inches. Book Description 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…
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