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Swing Hammer Swing!

by Jeff Torrington · 1992

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An "energetic, irreverent and very funny" (New York Times Book Review) first novel set in Glasgow during a single week in the late sixties. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called it "a rich Scotch broth of language, steaming with metaphor...and pungent dialect." Winner of Britain's Whitbread Book of the Year Award.

Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisScotlandScotlandMore like thisLess of thisGlasgowGlasgowMore like thisLess of thisBritishBritishMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 416 pages

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