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The big man is Dan Scoular, a legend of physical prowess in a decaying Ayrshire mining community. When a bare-knuckle fight offers both money and a purpose, he finds it turns into a monumental struggle to keep his heritage and integrity intact.
Price: $17.00
Pages: 272
Publisher: Canongate Books
Imprint: Canongate Books
Publication Date:
02 January 2014
Trim Size: 7.80 X 5.08 in
ISBN: 9781782113027
Format: Paperback
A vivid transcription of a small town and the people who live there . . . Wry, funny, tender, largely unsentimental and very readable
William McIlvanney's first novel, Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association. Strange Loyalties, the third in the Detective Laidlaw trilogy, won the Glasgow Herald's People's Prize. He died in December 2015.