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Heart-breaking, hilarious, profound, Not for Glory is an unforgettable collection of interlinked stories, delivered in a Scottish prose style unique to this gifted writer. Paisley sets her book in a central Scots village -'like livin life oan an intersection whaur everyhin goes by an nuhin comes in'; she lays bare the dramas of their lives in a world where there's little escape and less privacy. Tom's 'no right in the heid' and sneaks out at night to watch couples through windows. Magrit listens to opera and uses sequins to dispell the ache of not seeing her only grandchild. Isa draws her pension and waits for the police to find out what she's done to her man. Scratchy wants to get off with Clair and plans to kill his step-father. Archie spices up his old age by defrauding the shops down the town and the police are after Howie while Treesa, his pregnant girlfriend, is about to give birth.
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Janet Paisley has won many awards for her fiction, poetry and plays including the Creative Scotland Award 2000, the Scots Language MacDiarmid trophy, the Poetry Society Prize and Britain's largest writing prize, the Peggy Ramsay Award (for her play Refuge). She also writes for radio and television and her most recent screenplay was shortlisted for a Bafta award. Reading the Bones (poetry) was published by Canongate in 1999. Her work has been translated into five languages.
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Paisley skilfully employs a variety of voices and styles. * * The Scotsman * * An impressive achievement and a moving experience, Not For Glory is a culturally valuable story collection and more importantly, a compelling read. * * The List * * The stories that stand out from the crowd are Janet Paisley's . . . in two pages she describes a lifetime's hoarded bitterness, unleashed in short sentences that stab like dirks. * * Scotland on Sunday * * The power of her writing is doubled and redoubled ... From harrowing tragedy to hilarious camaraderie in the space of a moment without loss of control. * * The Guardian * *
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- PublisherCanongate Books Ltd
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1841951749
- ISBN 13 9781841951744
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages289
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