9780151874279. New condition. Hard cover. American ed. Language: English. Pages: 416. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 416 p. Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year for 1992, Jeff Torrington's startlingly original first novel is set in Glasgow, Scotland during a single week in the late sixties. Christmas is approaching, his wife is in the maternity hospital prematurely, his building is about to be demolished. Then, even more difficulties arise. . . .
9780151874279.Hard cover. American ed. Language: English. Pages: 416. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 416 p. Jeff Torrington's startlingly original first novel is set in Glasgow, Scotland, during a single-week in the late sixties. Christmas is approaching, and Thomas Clay is beset with mounting problems: his wife is in the maternity hospital prematurely; he's waiting for news of their transfer to "Legoland" high-rise housing - or for his tenement to be demolished beneath his very feet; he has no job, and his novel is, as yet, unpublished. Staggering from crisis to crisis, Thomas Clay is a man pursued - by petty gangsters, his Mafia-like in-laws, a doppelganger, and by time itself. He may imagine he has evaded the tyranny of clocks by escaping the nine-to-five, but no matter how fast he runs, the Grim Reaper seems cold on his heels.
