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Mr Alfred M A

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Author : James Kennaway
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2010-07-01

Mr Alfred M A written by James Kennaway and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-01 with Fiction categories.

Introduced by Douglas Gifford. Mr Alfred is an elderly schoolteacher dogged by a sense of failure. The rejection of his poetry and his nightly escape to the pub all contribute to his malaise. Perhaps most harrowing is his innocent but obsessive love for Rose, one of his pupils. This ‘affair’ is maliciously reported and he is torn from his familiar job and transferred to an even rougher school. Against a nightmarish background of gang warfare and public desecration the story reaches a frightening climax. This novel provides significant observation of a critical period in the saga of modern, urban youth. But its most striking achievement is in its portrait of Mr Alfred whose values and sensitive nature are so tragically at odds with his environment. ‘A bright book, full of perceptions.’ The Times ‘Skillfully done . . . the strange totemism of city gangs is used to great effect.’ TLS ‘This book has a rough and gutsy authenticity; it is entertaining and perceptive.’ Oxford Mail

Mr Alfred M A

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Author : George Friel
language : en
Publisher: Calder Publications Limited
Release Date : 1972

Mr Alfred M A written by George Friel and has been published by Calder Publications Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Fiction in English, 1900- Texts categories.

Mr Alfred M A

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Author : George Friel
language : en
Publisher: Calder Publications Limited
Release Date : 1972

Mr. Alfred is an elderly school teacher dogged by a sense of failure. The rejection of his poetry, his nightly escape to the pub--all contribute to his malaise. Perhaps most harrowing is his innocent but obsessive love for Rose, one of his pupils. This 'affair' is maliciously reported and he is torn from his familiar job and transferred to an even rougher school. Against a nightmarish background of gang warfare and public desecration the story reaches a frightening climax.....

A Glasgow Trilogy

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Author : George Friel
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2010-07-01

A Glasgow Trilogy written by George Friel and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-01 with Fiction categories.

Distinguished by irony, compassion and the author's own dry wit, these three novels paint a memorable picture of life in the streets, schools and tenements of Glasgow in the 1950s and 60s. With a unique vision of loneliness, old age, sexual longing, hot young blood and youth's casual cruelty, George Friel's books explore a dark comedy of tangled communication, human need and fading community. All these elements come together in the humorous parable of greed, religion and slum youth that is The Boy Who Wanted Peace; in the fate of old and disturbed Miss Partridge who is obsessed with the innocence of young Grace; and in the mental collapse of Mr Alfred, a middle-aged school teacher who is in love with one of his pupils. The humour, realism and moral concern of Friel's work clearly anticipate and stand alongside the novels of Alan Spence, Alasdair Gray, William McIlvanney and James Kelman.