Author: | Kevin MacNeil | ISBN: | 9780141902173 |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd | Publication: | September 7, 2006 |
Imprint: | Penguin | Language: | English |
Author: | Kevin MacNeil |
ISBN: | 9780141902173 |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Publication: | September 7, 2006 |
Imprint: | Penguin |
Language: | English |
‘Fuck everyone from Holden Caulfield to Bridget Jones, fuck all the American and English phoney fictions that claim to speak for us; they don’t know the likes of us exist and they never did. We are who we are because we grew up the Stornoway way. We do not live in the back of beyond, we live in the very heart of beyond …’
Meet R Stornoway, drink-addled misfit, inhabitant of the Hebridean Isle of Lewis, and meandering man fighting to break free of an island he just can’t seem to let go of…
‘Fuck everyone from Holden Caulfield to Bridget Jones, fuck all the American and English phoney fictions that claim to speak for us; they don’t know the likes of us exist and they never did. We are who we are because we grew up the Stornoway way. We do not live in the back of beyond, we live in the very heart of beyond …’
Meet R Stornoway, drink-addled misfit, inhabitant of the Hebridean Isle of Lewis, and meandering man fighting to break free of an island he just can’t seem to let go of…