He'd cut his throat with the knife. He'd near chopped off his hand with the meat cleaver. ' It is off-season in a remote Highland sea-port- twenty-one year old Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket, wakes one morning to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on their kitchen floor. Morvern's laconic reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does next is even more appalling. . . Brutal, erotic, jarringly poetic and rich in a blood-dark humour, MORVERN CALLAR is a powerful ...
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He'd cut his throat with the knife. He'd near chopped off his hand with the meat cleaver. ' It is off-season in a remote Highland sea-port- twenty-one year old Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket, wakes one morning to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on their kitchen floor. Morvern's laconic reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does next is even more appalling. . . Brutal, erotic, jarringly poetic and rich in a blood-dark humour, MORVERN CALLAR is a powerful debut novel from a new Scottish writer. In this novel with a young female narrator, Alan Warner shifts the focus away from the female-dominated urban realism of much contemporary Scottish fiction towards a new and disquieting hyper-realism set in the Highlands and hallucinatory Spanish resorts. MORVERN CALLAR is a novel for which it would be hard to find comparisons; it marks the arrival of an extraordinary new writer.
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Fine book in wrappers. 229 pages First edition, first printing. His 1st book, a paperback original. Cover design by Chris Shamwana. This book a Somerset Maugham Award. It was made into a Lynne Ramsey film in 2002. Fine book in wrappers. A beautiful copy!
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Small 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 229pp. Very good. Some mild edgewear and bit of "rolling" to spine, with slight soiling to page edges. First of this paperback edition, nicely inscribed and signed by the author in black ballpoint on the half-title page: "To Alex / Cheers / Alan Warner / 18 05 95."
