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Morvern CallarAlan Warner

Morvern Callar

1995240 pages
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14 editions · 7 languages
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Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket of a desolate and beautiful port town in the west of Scotland, wakes one morning in late December to find that her boyfriend has committed suicide and is lying dead on the kitchen floor. Morvern's reaction is both intriguing and immoral, and what she does next is appalling. Moving across a blurred European landscape - from the rural poverty and drunken mayhem of the Scottish port to the Mediterranean rave scene - we experience everything from Morvern's stark, unflinching perspective. She rarely goes anywhere without the Walkman left…

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14 editions · 7 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2015
    Vintage · 224 pages · 9781784870102
  • Paperback · English · 2002
    Vintage · 240 pages · 9780099449942
  • Paperback · English · 1997
    Knopf Doubleday · 242 pages · 9780385487412
  • Paperback · English · 1996
    Vintage · 240 pages · 9780099586111
  • Paperback · English · 1995
    Jonathan Cape · 229 pages · 9780224040112
  • Hardcover · Russian · 2004
    Морверн Каллар
    Амфора · 269 pages · 9785942785352
EuropeFictionRave cultureScotsYoung womenLittérature écossaiseFiction, psychologicalScotland, fiction