Magnus Merriman. Eric Linklater

• Тип: Текст
• Автор: Eric Linklater
• Издательство: Ingram(2020)
• Серия: Canongate Classics
• ISBN: 9781847675415
• Язык: Английский

• Жанры: Зарубежная классика

Introduced by Douglas Gifford. <br/> This hilarious novel charts the rise and fall (and perhaps the rise again) of Magnus Merriman—would-be lover, writer, politician, idealist and crofter—moved by dreams of greatness and a talent for farcical defeat. <br/> Convinced that ‘small nations are safer to live in than big ones’, Magnus becomes a Nationalist candidate for the parliamentary seat of ‘Kinluce’. <br/> With details based on Linklater’s own experiences in an East Fife by-election in 1933, the way is set for a satirical and irreverent portrait of Scottish life, literature and politics in the 1930s. Nothing is sacred and no-one is spared. <br/> ‘A book full of remarkable passages . . . [with a] breathless tempo . . . it is wonderful writing.’ Herald