The Deadman's Pedal
  • Published: 15 May 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099268765
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $29.99

The Deadman's Pedal

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Winner of the James Tait Black Fiction Prize this is ‘A wonderful reconstruction of small-town Scotland in the 1970s, a hymn to teenage innocence and an elegy for old industries and the men who worked in them – Alan Warner's best yet’
Herald

Winner of the James Tait Black Fiction Prize

For 16-year-old Simon Crimmons there is not a lot to do. Going nowhere, fed up with school, he leaves to work as a driver on the trains. That summer he is introduced to a world of grown-up glamour, strikes and girlfriends. When Simon falls for the ethereal, aristocratic Varie, he finds freedom and adventure but will it be at a price? Too ‘posh’ for the railways, too ‘working class’ for Varie, Simon must navigate what it means to be a man as his world is turned upside down.
  • Published: 15 May 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099268765
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Alan Warner

Alan Warner is the author of eight novels: Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, The Sopranos, The Man Who Walks, The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven, The Stars in the Bright Sky, which was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, The Deadman's Pedal and Their Lips Talk of Mischief. He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.

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Also by Alan Warner

Our Ladies
The Stars in the Bright Sky
The Man Who Walks
The Sopranos
These Demented Lands
Morvern Callar
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Praise for The Deadman's Pedal

A delight: a boisterous, kindly, deep, sweet romp of a thing

Scotsman

Absolutely beautiful... As far as I'm concerned he's emerging as the William Faulkner of British fiction: somebody who's created a body of work that has not only animated a language but a period and a place... He has this incredible talent

Andrew O'Hagan

This is the best Scottish fiction since Lanark

Scottish Review of Books

Morally sensitive, exquisitely written and emotionally mature

Guardian

If you still haven’t read it from last year, Alan Warner’s The Deadman’s Pedal was out in paperback in this. Read it

Janice Galloway, Scotsman
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