Swing Hammer Swing!
Jeff Torrington's Whitbread-winning novel of Glasgow's Gorbals as the old tenements came down.
Jeff Torrington’s novel is set in Glasgow during the demolition of the old Gorbals. Torrington, a Glasgow writer whose fiction drew on the changing face of modern Scotland, took thirty years to write it. Published in 1992, it won the Whitbread Book of the Year.
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Bob Odenkirk
After reading an energetic, positive review buried deep within The New York Times one day, I bought this Glasgow-set first novel and was thrilled by the writing: Swing Hammer Swing! is funny, clever, and bleak as hell. I wrote Torrington a fan letter, the only one I've ever written. Never received a reply. No hard feelings.
Article · October 2014
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