Morvern Callar
Author(s): Alan Warner
It is off-season in a remote Highland seaport: twenty-one-year-old Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket, wakes one morning to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on their kitchen floor.
Morvern's laconic reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does next is even more appalling...
General Information
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- : Random House UK
- : VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
- : 0.164
- : 01 July 2015
- : 01 August 2015
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Alan Warner
- : Paperback
- : en
- : 823.92
More About The Product
Brutal, erotic, jarringly poetic and rich in a blood-dark humour, Morvern Callar was the spectacular debut of an utterly original Scottish writer and winner of the Somerset Maugham Award
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award
Alan Warner is the author of seven novels: Morvern Callar (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), 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; and The Deadman's Pedal (2012). He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.
