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The Man Who Walks (Paperback)

by Alan Warner (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd (30 May 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0224051091
  • ISBN-13: 978-0224051095
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.4 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 891,003 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Alan Warner's new novel The Man Who Walks is his latest attempt to recapture the form and verve of his desperately brilliant, luridly beautiful, pungently lyrical Morvern Caller; his exceptional debut.

The opening sentence promises, and threatens, equally. "The Nephew was lain silent atop the paper sacks of pony nuts near the roof of the agric supply warehouse, dreaming about ghost bags, when his mobile diddled 'Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves'". From this arch but poetic introduction Warner spins a strange, eerie, brutish, edgy, kinetic, voluptuous story, set in his usual sodden and hallucinatory Scotland-on-steroids. The characters are a motley crew of misfits, lordlings, computer geeks, scribblers, and Caledonian soaks, with names like Raincheck, Macushla, Jaxter, Hacker, Syrupy Piece, Tracy the Trolley, and Brian. Together and apart these strange creatures wander the lochs and braes of Auld Scotland doing drugs, each other, and occasional disservices to the English language.

What is it about? That's a bit harder to say. The themes are the perennial Warner ones: blurred identity, rustic quirkiness, the intrusion of the surreal. There are many stunning moments of sly, shocking, vivid, Warnerian beauty; there are also a few moments of lazy underwriting, and overheated imagining. Somewhere among all this glory and disorder is probably a serious take on what it means to be a whole human being in late-capitalist Europe. This is deeply, deeply intriguing.--Sean Thomas

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A scandelous theft has left a pub's World Cup cash kitty missing, causing a homeless drifter to pursue his eccentric uncle - "The Man Who Walks" - north, into the Highlands, to recover the #27,000. This novel concerns the nephew's progress and bizarre diversions, in pursuit of his uncle.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars More Highland Hi-Jinks, 26 Jan 2003
By A. Ross (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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Warner's fourth book bears many marks of similarity to his first three, both in subject matter, imagination, setting, and unevenness. Set in the same part of Scotland's Western Highlands, the story revolves around the port town of Oban. As in Morvern Callar and to a lesser extent These Demented Lands, there's a central figure wandering the landscape in semi-picaresque fashion in pursuit of a large sum of cash. The protagonist is "The Nephew" a semi-homeless tinker whose legendary wild uncle (the title character) has stolen a pub's World Cup pool money. As he wanders the highlands a step behind his uncle, the Nephew (who is a bit of an oddball himself) manages to get in situations where he has weird sex, takes odd drugs, pukes, drinks, urinates in a doll's head, feasts with nobility, and gets mixed up with an inordinate number of total weirdoes. Warner's fictional Highlands are a sort of rural New York where every time you turn around there's some madman who's all to happy to include you in his world.

Warner's first two books, especially These Demented Lands, exhibited a kind of wild borderline surrealism that sometimes worked and sometimes didn't. These Demented Lands didn't really have enough of a narrative line and ultimately fell apart, however here he's got just enough of a plot to keep everything together. The Nephew's quest is often hilarious, often horrifying, and wholly imaginative, while at times veering off course and just barely holding together. Warner's clearly a talented writer and this is one of his better efforts, but I'd still suggest trying his much more accessible The Sopranos before you delve into this.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Walking Into Insanity., 2 Jun 2002
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Well. This truly is a very, very strange book altogether. Fans of Warner's other works will not find this surprising. However, this is a more freeform Warner, and veers between erudition, sickness, sex, surrealism and outright hilarity. I lost count of the number of times I laughed during reading this, principally due to the sheer strangeness of Warner's imagination. You get the feeling the more outrageous something was, the more likely he was to commit it to paper during writing.

The plot? Well. The Man Who Walks - a bizarre character I couldn't begin to explain - steals £27,000 and goes to spend it on drink and debauchery in the Scottish Highlands. His nephew, cunningly called The Nephew, sets out after him, and encounters all manner of weird and wonderful goings-on. Any more wouldn't do justice to the text.

However. This really isn't among Warner's best work. His usual gorgeous lyrical prose poetry passages are here, many of the subject of nature. But. There is not enough distance between the author and his creations, and the narrative voice all just comes off as one person, ie the writer, instead of the several disparate voices it is meant to be, which is pretty disappointing.

But hey. The whole thing is amusing enough, if confusing in places. It's like reading a David Lynch film, if that helps you out any.

And it probably doesn't.

Warner fans will eat it up. Everybody else will just be confused. Actually, so will Warner fans be, so strike that. If nonsense and sensibility is what you're looking for, look no further.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Godlike weirdness, 2 Jun 2002
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Packed from beginning to end with laugh-aloud humour, startling images, shocking twists and turns, and incisive visions of modern Scotland. This is like nothing else you've ever read - except, perhaps, Warner's earlier novels. But this one is even better, even bolder, even further out.
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2.0 out of 5 stars very disappointing
I was a big fan of Morvern Callar, a beautiful novel which although not always consitently wonderful, certainly showed the promise of a great writer emerging. Read more
Published on 28 Oct 2003 by petmoo

4.0 out of 5 stars scotland never looked more attractive
Yet another drug fuelled, debauched journey around the West coast of Scotland from Warner. More Demented Lands than any of his other books Man Who Walks is an Odyssean journey by... Read more
Published on 4 July 2002 by Rev L R

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