Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic

Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

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8"x 5 1/4" trade pbk, photo-illus cover, 291 pgs; pub info on back, w/ author

8"x 5 1/4" trade pbk, photo-illus cover, 291 pgs; pub info on back, w/ author photo by Jane Swan; 9 review-quotes on first page, book info on verso. book design by Lori McThomas Buley.

In shrink wrap.

In shrink wrap.

New York. 1999. Harcourt Brace. 1st American Edition. Very Good in

New York. 1999. Harcourt Brace. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0151004943. 289 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Scotland. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Hugh Provan was a Modernist hero. A dreamer, a Socialist, a man of the people, he led Scotland's towerblock programme after the war. Now he lies on a bed on the eighteenth floor. The times have changed. His flats are coming down. The idealism he learned from his mother is gone. And even as his breath goes out he clings to the old ways. His wife sings her Scots ballads to soothe him, yet his final months are plagued by memory and loss, by a bitter sense of his family and his country, who could not live up to the houses he built for them. Meanwhile the corruption hearings bring their hammer down on the past. Hugh's grandson, Jamie, comes home to watch over his dying mentor. The old man's final months bring Jamie to see what is best and worst in the past that haunts them all, and he sees the fears of his own life unravel in the land that bred him. He tells the story of his own family-a tale of pride and delusion, of nationality and strong drink, of Catholic faith and the end of the old Left. It is a tale of dark hearts and modern houses, of three men in search of Utopia. Andrew O'Hagan has written a story which is a poignant and powerful reclamation of the past and a clear sighted gaze at our relationship with history, personal and public. inventory #27063.

Size: 88x13x136; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Size: 88x13x136; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!