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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Blackden

Blackden

McLean, Duncan

Paperback

Series: Norton Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 039331975X
ISBN13: 9780393319750
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Jan 1 2000
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.24
Language: English
Duncan McLean has been called Scotland's answer to Roddy Doyle (Cosmopolitan), but he has his own unique, scruffy voice full of quirky humor and surreal images. In the highland town of Blackden, things have gotten overheated despite being overtaken by the chill of winter. Inside the head of eighteen-year-old Patrick Hunter, an auctioneer's assistant, the blood is boiling. Fueled by a potent mix of yankee doodle pie and beer, Patrick spends a November weekend on his own when his off-balanced mother goes to the city. Racing around the hills and dens of his hometown, he is half in escape from worn-out friends, drudging work, and painful memories, and half in pursuit of a girl, his father's ghost, and a new life. Brilliantly funny: fast, sharp, constant banter, even when the narrator is only talking to himself. Times Literary Supplement A hilarious and touching insight into the mind of a young man, balanced between naivety and maturity. The List

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