Brilliant, tender, a stylistic dazzler

- Hilary Mantel,

A dazzling achievement

Time Out

Morvern is a brilliant creation... more than a stunning debut novel; to my mind it establishes Alan Warner as one of the most talented, original and interesting voices around

- Irvine Welsh,

Se alle

Morvern is a compelling creation; elusive, enigmatic and opaque. Both ordinary and extraordinary, she gleams out like onyx from a vivid, macabre and lyrical book

Guardian

Not since Camus'<i> The Outsider</i> has a voice with so many angles hopped and fluttered from the pages, has a note risen to chill in its opening breath

Scotland on Sunday

Warner's portrait of a Scottish rave-girl is bleak, haunting and brilliantly original

- Nick Hornby,

It is off-season in a remote Highland sea port: twenty-one-year-old Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket, wakes one morning to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on their kitchen floor. Morvern's laconic reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does next is even more appalling...

WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD

Les mer

It is off-season in a remote Highland sea port: twenty-one-year-old Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket, wakes one morning to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on their kitchen floor. Morvern's laconic reaction is both intriguing and immoral.

Les mer
Brutal, erotic, jarringly poetic and rich in a blood-dark humour, Morvern Callar was the spectacular debut of an utterly original Scottish writer and winner of the Somerset Maugham Award

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781784870102
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage Classics
Vekt
161 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter

Biografisk notat

Alan Warner is the author of seven novels: Morvern Callar (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), These Demented Lands, The Sopranos, The Man Who Walks, The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven, The Stars in the Bright Sky, which was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize; and The Deadman's Pedal (2012). He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.