Boyhood
Cult author David Keenan's most mature, magical and profoundly realised novel yet, centred on a young boy in Glasgow
Ā
'Slaps our dull, sterile culture hard across the face with a studded, uncompromising literary glove' -Ā IRVINE WELSH
'Reading Keenan is like reclaiming your own imagination' -Ā LIAS SAOUDI
'David Keenan is a wizard with words' -Ā BENJAMIN MYERS
Ā
BoyhoodĀ opens in 1979 with the abduction of a young boy outside a Glasgow football ground. Nine years later, the boy's brother, Aaron Murray, is on the cusp of that moment when adolescence becomes adulthood. His own journey of grief and recovery has been guided by an angel, 'The Precious Gift' - perhaps imagined, perhaps real - who has blessed Aaron with redemptive, messianic powers. These have enabled him to see through the past and present, joining the dots between a vast array of characters; ballerinas, soldiers, poets, burlesque dancers, East End gangsters and the Vampire of Derry over five decades, all tied up in each other's fate.
As Aaron's visions span cities and decades, from wartime Paris to the Troubles in the 1970s, Mexico City in the 1980s to - of course - Glasgow,Ā BoyhoodĀ builds to an extraordinary, intense, climactic moment of redemption.
A book of great joy, of laughter in the face of horror and delight in storytelling by the beloved and critically acclaimed author ofĀ This Is Memorial Device,Ā BoyhoodĀ is a hymn to the resilience of youth, to the brave dreams of artists and lovers and a love letter to Glasgow - a city where magic happens.
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Cult author David Keenan's most mature, magical and profoundly realised novel yet, centred on a young boy in Glasgow
Ā
'Slaps our dull, sterile culture hard across the face with a studded, uncompromising literary glove' -Ā IRVINE WELSH
'Reading Keenan is like reclaiming your own imagination' -Ā LIAS SAOUDI
'David Keenan is a wizard with words' -Ā BENJAMIN MYERS
Ā
BoyhoodĀ opens in 1979 with the abduction of a young boy outside a Glasgow football ground. Nine years later, the boy's brother, Aaron Murray, is on the cusp of that moment when adolescence becomes adulthood. His own journey of grief and recovery has been guided by an angel, 'The Precious Gift' - perhaps imagined, perhaps real - who has blessed Aaron with redemptive, messianic powers. These have enabled him to see through the past and present, joining the dots between a vast array of characters; ballerinas, soldiers, poets, burlesque dancers, East End gangsters and the Vampire of Derry over five decades, all tied up in each other's fate.
As Aaron's visions span cities and decades, from wartime Paris to the Troubles in the 1970s, Mexico City in the 1980s to - of course - Glasgow,Ā BoyhoodĀ builds to an extraordinary, intense, climactic moment of redemption.
A book of great joy, of laughter in the face of horror and delight in storytelling by the beloved and critically acclaimed author ofĀ This Is Memorial Device,Ā BoyhoodĀ is a hymn to the resilience of youth, to the brave dreams of artists and lovers and a love letter to Glasgow - a city where magic happens.
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Cult author David Keenan's most mature, magical and profoundly realised novel yet, centred on a young boy in Glasgow
Ā
'Slaps our dull, sterile culture hard across the face with a studded, uncompromising literary glove' -Ā IRVINE WELSH
'Reading Keenan is like reclaiming your own imagination' -Ā LIAS SAOUDI
'David Keenan is a wizard with words' -Ā BENJAMIN MYERS
Ā
BoyhoodĀ opens in 1979 with the abduction of a young boy outside a Glasgow football ground. Nine years later, the boy's brother, Aaron Murray, is on the cusp of that moment when adolescence becomes adulthood. His own journey of grief and recovery has been guided by an angel, 'The Precious Gift' - perhaps imagined, perhaps real - who has blessed Aaron with redemptive, messianic powers. These have enabled him to see through the past and present, joining the dots between a vast array of characters; ballerinas, soldiers, poets, burlesque dancers, East End gangsters and the Vampire of Derry over five decades, all tied up in each other's fate.
As Aaron's visions span cities and decades, from wartime Paris to the Troubles in the 1970s, Mexico City in the 1980s to - of course - Glasgow,Ā BoyhoodĀ builds to an extraordinary, intense, climactic moment of redemption.
A book of great joy, of laughter in the face of horror and delight in storytelling by the beloved and critically acclaimed author ofĀ This Is Memorial Device,Ā BoyhoodĀ is a hymn to the resilience of youth, to the brave dreams of artists and lovers and a love letter to Glasgow - a city where magic happens.
