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Title: Morvern Callar by Alan Warner ISBN: 0-385-48741-X Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 17 February, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (25 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: high hopes....mixed feelings
Comment: Being an avid reader of all Irvine Welsh novels I was intrigued by Morvern Callar (being a recommendation book from the amazon.com scottish fiction library). Heck, there is a brilliant quote from Irvine right on the cover...I thought this would be right up my alley. Unfortunately it only meandered around the alley...the abrupt start throws you headlong into Morvern's life which was a bit bizarre as it becomes glaringly obvious that this book was written by a man who doesn't quite know how to write convincingly as a girl (the reader from Maryland has it right...enough with the baths). Aside from the [small] character glitch, the story is a smooth progression of random events and as my faith in the novel begins to rise it grinds to a screeching halt and I'm left with questions which go unanswered...as if Warner was getting a bit bored and decided to call it a day.
Rating: 4
Summary: Rural hedonism meets today's dance culture
Comment: Morvern has a crappy wee job in the supermarket which she
hates, she's skint but her blokes got a bit more dosh and
so when he kills himself having jist completed a novel
Morvern firsts hides his body in the loft and raids his
bank account and then publishes his book under her name
and lives the high life off the proceeds partying on the
Spanish costas. Alan Warner has with this novel produced
an update on Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting; the heroin
culture in Scotland's inner cities is no more the drug
culture has spread to even the most rural towns of Scotland
but it has changed from the destructive heroin to the free
love of ecstacy. We also see the ravages of society
post-thatcherism; where Trainspotting's Rent et al knew
they were a subversive element in society Morvern ill-
educated and with weakened family links seeks only hedonism
and doesn't view herself as the destructive element in
society she is.
Warner has a new novel published soon and I look forward to
more from him and the rest of the rebel inc.crew.
Rating: 2
Summary: Maybe you should just see the movie
Comment: The following is a synopsis of one of the scenes in _Morvern Callar_. It doesn't involve major characters and it doesn't reveal a plot point, but it does give something of the book's tone.
It's Hogmanay. The narrator and her social circle have gathered in a local hotel. Midnight passes, then closing time, so the police come to make them leave. One man buys several whiskies and wants to take them with him but the police won't let him, so he pours the whiskies down the throat of his fish, takes the fish outside, and drinks the whiskies out of the fish's mouth.
If that baffled you, you should probably skip the book entirely. In short, it's so Scottish it probably won't travel well.
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Title: Blackden by Duncan McLean ISBN: 039331975X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Trumpet : A Novel by Jackie Kay ISBN: 0375704639 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: These Demented Lands by Alan Warner ISBN: 0385491468 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 17 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Foreign Parts by Janice Galloway ISBN: 1564780821 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Looking For The Possible Dance by A.L. Kennedy ISBN: 0749397586 Publisher: Reed Consumer Books Pub. Date: 03 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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