by William McIlvanney · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781782111900
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«The Kiln» is William McIlvanney’s novel of maturity, published by Canongate Books in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Tom Docherty is seventeen in the summer of 1955. With school finished and a summer job at a brick factory, Tom has his future ahead of him. Years later, alone in a rented flat in Edinburgh, he recalls the intellectual and sexual awakening of his youth and discovers that only by understanding his origins can he understand his present life.
Originally published in 1996, winner of the Saltire Society’s Scottish Book of the Year; this paperback edition appeared in 2014.
Recommended for those seeking Scottish literary fiction and novels about memory and maturity.
William Angus McIlvanney was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He was known as Gus by friends and acquaintances. McIlvanney was a champion of gritty yet poetic literature; his works Laidlaw, The Papers of Tony Veitch, and Walking Wounded are all known for their portrayal of Glasgow in the 1970s. He is regarded as "the father of Tartan Noir" and as Scotland's Camus.
