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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd (5 April 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841959294
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841959290
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.5 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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'Manages to be tough-hearted and tender-minded, but also drop-dead
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'Funny, moving, gripping, magical and tragic. A brilliant debut.'
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5.0 out of 5 stars A slice of life..., 19 April 2008
By A. McGleish "Lost Scot" (Wales) - See all my reviews
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What a great read. A quick read? Sure. An easy read? That too. Simplistic? Not so sure about that, lots of well observed detail about Scottish working class life, about growing up as a man, about work and love and fear and family. Lost of depth there, explored in lots of levels.

I had one heartsink moment when I thought the author was going to take a well-trodden route so I put the book down, but steeled myself, and was delighted that he'd found another way. I don't know whether you'd have to be a Scot to really get the book. Certainly there's a lot of Glesga patter, and the distinctive humour is both cruel and affectionate.

I found myself caring a lot about Sean and getting caught up in his situation, wondering how, if, he was going to resolve it. Only afterwards did I catch on to the tension between the different solutions on offer: The nice, official, civilised, legal or the scarier, rougher, more macho...
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4.0 out of 5 stars pretty funny, 29 Jan 2008
By Tito K (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
thankfully not too many chicken jokes in this wonderfully amusing and lightly satirical look at how truly appalling life can get. A genuinely new voice and thankfully not too heavy on the scottish patois. I read it in one sitting and laughed out loud. took about a week to get rid of the smell of death from my mind and since jamie olivers shown us what goes on in the life of chickens I doubt I'll be touching the beasts again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Re-Fresh, 1 May 2007
By Maggie (Norfolk, England) - See all my reviews
Absolutely brilliant! A wonderful, darkly comic story, full of characters you feel you know, and very quickly care about. Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fresh
A great story from a new master, Full of tragedy and humour,like real life. More from Mark McNay soon please.
Published 15 months ago by Pr Horne

5.0 out of 5 stars Gonnae no' do that... whatever that means
I'm not a Scot, but I live near Glasgow and I can totally, unquestioningly, 100% believe in the realism of this novel.

It's funny and tragic and violent and sad.
Published 18 months ago by serialdeviant

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent Debut
Scottish writer McNay manages to coax a novel out of somewhat limited material in his debut. Mixing first and third-person narration, we follow Glaswegian Sean O'Grady over the... Read more
Published 23 months ago by A. Ross

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, realistic, scary, but with real heart
This book cost me a night's sleep. The narrative was so vivid and compelling that I could not put it down. Read more
Published on 11 May 2007 by sokolova

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