Sputnik Caledonia [Paperback]

'Sputnik Caledonia is a quantum leap forward for the Scottish novel.'

'Clever, funny and sometimes sad.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'...sensitive about loss and hard-earned maturity, and intelligent about fools' paradises...the people who fabulate and live in them.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'This a surprisingly moving novel about the impersonal forces...Never has astrophysics seemed so touching and funny.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'In a way, none of it should work, but it does gloriously. There is some beautiful writing, and quiet fun.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'This book, undeniably his most ambitious and accomplished, can be seen as a summary and extension of his previous novels.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'Crumey makes it all hang together both as plot and as emotional experience, even when strict logic crumbles.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'His sixth and undoubtedly his best . . . Lingers long in the mind . . . a real haunting triumph' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'Mouth-watering . . . thrilling . . . brilliant . . . extremely poignant. A moving novel about the impersonal forces.'
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'Charming and funny, a little reminiscent of David Mitchell's Black Swan Green but with added physics...' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

A bold and exuberant tale of childhood, space travel and telepathy

Robbie Coyle is an imaginative kid. He wants so badly to become Scotland’s first cosmonaut that he tries to teach himself Russian and trains for space exploration in the cupboard under the sink. But the place to which his fantasies later take him is far from the safety of his suburban childhood. In a communist state, in a closed, bleak town, the mysterious Red Star heralds his discovery of cruelty and of love, and the possibility that the most passionate of dreams may only be a chimera . . . ‘Sputnik Caledonia should leave you breathless with admiration. A quantum leap forward for the Scottish novel’ Scotland on Sunday ‘A brio of a book . . . One for the boys, big and little – and for those of us who wonder just what does go on inside a boy’s head’  Spectator ‘Andrew Crumey has fused a thrilling personal narrative with quantum mechanics in a way that somehow looks easy . . . Never has astrophysics seemed so touching and funny’ Daily Telegraph ‘There are echoes here of Alasdair Gray’s Lanark; echoes of Jonathan Coe’s What a Carve Up! . . . A real haunting triumph’ Observer

Andrew Crumey's novels have been praised and translated worldwide. Music, in a Foreign Language (1994) won the Saltire First Book Award and was longlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize; Mr Mee (2000) was longlisted for the Booker Prize; Mobius Dick (2004) was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize; and Sputnik Caledonia, as a work in progress, received the £60,000 Northern Rock Foundation Writer’s Award.