The Sound of My Voice
β Scribed by Ron Butlin
- Publisher
- Birlinn;Lightning Source Inc. : Polygon
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 73 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
'Playful, haunting and moving, this is writing of the highest quality . . . One of the most inventive and daring novels ever to have come out of Scotland' - Ian Rankin
'One of the classic post-war Scottish novels. It's simply a roaring success on all levels; it's a genius piece of fiction' - Irvine Welsh
'A profound and beautifully written study of human fragility in the face of the brutalism of modern life' - James Robertson
'One of the best books I have ever read' - Philipa Coughlin, Nudge Books
'Deserves to be talked about in the same breath as Saul Bellow's Seize the Day' - Metro
Morris Magellan is thirty-four years old and already two-thirds destroyed. By day he is an executive, after six and at weekends the husband of an understanding wife and the father of two. At all times he is a music lover and a drunk.
Of the past he remembers only fear, and of the future he senses even greater terror to come; he is a man struggling from...
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