New Releases by Jeff Torrington

From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, Tam Clay chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move in. Intersecting friends, old-timers and eccentrics, navigating his pregnant wife, frisky bedfellows and debt collectors, Tam stumbles through a derelict world on an odyssey of self-discovery. Wildly funny, outlandish and insanely ambitious – thirty years in the writing – Torrington’s pulverised ’60s Glasgow is crammed to the crevices with a blizzard of his unique and insatiable genius.

This lively novel brings to life the workers and management of the small Centaur Car Company automobile plant, where "the comic setting gives way to tragic events."--Jacket.

In de late jaren zestig halen sloophamers een beruchte achterbuurt in Glasgow neer en daarmee ook de wereld van een aanstaande vader op de vlucht voor het burgerlijk bestaan.