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Morvern Callar
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Series: Morvern Callar Cycle, Book 1
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ISBN10: 038548741X
ISBN13: 9780385487412
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Feb 17 1997
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.23 Depth: 8.07
Language: English
Awards: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
ISBN13: 9780385487412
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Feb 17 1997
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.23 Depth: 8.07
Language: English
Awards: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
An utterly unforgettable novel that portrays a vast internal emptiness by using the cool, haunting voice of a young woman in Scotland lost in the profound anomie of her generation--from one of the most talented, original and interesting voices around (Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting).
Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket in a desolate and beautiful port town in the west of Scotland, wakes one morning in late December to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on the kitchen floor. Morvern's reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does next is even more appalling. Moving across a blurred European landscape--from rural poverty and drunken mayhem of the port to the Mediterranean rave scene--we experience everything from Morvern's stark, unflinching perspective. Morvern is utterly hypnotizing from her very first sentence to her last. She rarely goes anywhere without the Walkman left behind as a Christmas present by her dead boyfriend, and as she narrates this strange story, she takes care to tell the reader exactly what music she is listening to, giving the stunning effect of a sound track running behind her voice. In much the same way that Patrick McCabe managed to tell an incredibly rich and haunting story through the eyes of an emotionally disturbed boy in The Butcher Boy, Alan Warner's Morvern Caller is a brilliant creation.
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