macCloud Falls
Published on 15. March 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-912147-44-1 (ISBN)
Description
macCLOUD FALLS is both an exploration of early Scottish colonisation of B.C. and its ongoing impact, and a road-trip romance full of humour, rich characters and incident in the shadow of impending death, played out against the backdrop of the Vancouver Canucks' vainglorious Stanley Cup run.
Reviews / Votes
Jamieson is a writer of endless narrative invention and soaring prose and he tells an important story here. - HARRY MCGRATH, SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKSMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 129 mm
Width: 199 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
396 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912147-44-1 (9781912147441)
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Person
Robert Alan Jamieson was born in Lerwick on Up Helly Aa, 1958 and grew up in the crofting community of Sandness. He attended the University of Edinburgh as a mature student and subsequently held the William Soutar Fellowship in Perth. He was a co-editor of Edinburgh Review, 1993-98, and writer in residence at the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde, 1998-2001. Since then he has tutored creative writing at the University of Edinburgh.