- Europe, Fiction, Rave culture, Scots
Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket of a desolate and beautiful port town in the west of Scotland, wakes one morning in late December to find that her boyfriend has committed suicide and is lying dead on the kitchen floor.
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Grave, prestige, bleak and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Alan Warner
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- 10/18, MånPocket, Goldmann
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, Spanish, German, Italian
- ISBN
- 9780385487412
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“He'd cut his throat with the knife.”
Alan Warner (born 1964) is a Scottish novelist who grew up in Connel, near Oban. Warner's debut novel, the acclaimed *Morvern Callar* (1995), won a Somerset Maugham Award. It was followed by *These Demented Lands* (1997), which won the Encore Award. His third novel *The Sopranos* (1998) won the Saltire Society's Scottish Book of the Year Award.
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