Swing Hammer Swing! - (Scottish Classics) (Torrington Jeff)(Paperback)

"Swing Hammer Swing is a seriously good novel. Critics have rightly claimed that he does for Glasgow what James Joyce did for Dublin." --Stephen Pile, Daily Telegraph Following Tam Clay around the Gorbals slums of 1960s Glasgow, Torrington combines lyrical verve with dark comedy in this modern odyssey of self-discovery. Direct, aggressive, with an eye for a witty pun and an ear for Glaswegian dialect, Torrington bends language to his uncompromising will. A riotous urban picaresque, Jeff Torrington's comic novel marked a milestone in Scottish
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