Duncan McLean has been called "Scotlands answer to Roddy Doyle" (Cosmopolitan), but he has his own unique, scruffy voice full of quirky humor and surreal images. In the highland town of Blackden, things have gotten overheated despite being overtaken by the chill of winter. Inside the head of eighteenyearold Patrick Hunter, an auctioneers assistant, the blood is boiling. Fueled by a potent mix of yankee doodle pie and beer, Patrick spends a November weekend on his own when his offbalanced mother goes to the city. Racing around the hills and dens of his hometown, he is half in escape from wornout friends, drudging work, and painful memories, and half in pursuit of a girl, his fathers ghost, and a new life. "Brilliantly funny fast, sharp, constant banter, even when the narrator is only talking to himself." Times Literary Supplement "A hilarious and touching insight into the mind of a young man, balanced between naivety and maturity." The List"

Binding: Paperback;238 pages; Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.; Classification: FA; Weight: 340 g; Dimensions: 210 x 142 x 17

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