The Sound of My Voice

✍ Scribed by Butlin, Ron

• Book ID: 110492328
• Publisher: Birlinn
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 70 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781846974229

✦ 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...