Someone Always Robs the Poor
Published on 23. February 2017
198 pages
978-1-911332-14-5 (ISBN)
Description
A long-awaited new collection of stories from one of Scotland's most acclaimed writers.
A young man returns from London, facing the prospect of reunion with a young daughter he's never met. A woman recounts her family's doomed attempt to emigrate from Poland to America 70 years before. A creative writing tutor is shocked by the story of one of his students, who is connected to a past atrocity in Bosnia. A former architect fights a losing battle with alcoholism and the ghosts from his past.
Here is a new collection of brilliant stories from the multi-award winning elder statesman of Scottish literature, exploring themes of poverty, migration, alienation, accountability and alcoholism, with an impressive depth and emotional range.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Glasgow
United Kingdom
File size
0,52 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-911332-14-5 (9781911332145)
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Carl MacDougall
Someone Always Robs the Poor
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02/2017
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Carl MacDougall's books incude the novels The Lights Below (1993), Stone Over Water (1990) and The Casanova Papers (1997), which was shortlisted for both the McVitie and the Saltire awards. His story collections include Elvis is Dead (1986), The One Legged Tap Dancer and now, Someone Always Robs the Poor (2017). His books on literature and language include Scots: The Language of the People (2006) and Writing Scotland (2004) while he edited the highly successful anthology The Devil and the Giro (1989). he wrote and presented two television series for BBC 2. He is President of Scottish PEN.
