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Title: DEAREST DACHA
By: Norman MacLean
Format: Paperback

List price: £5.99


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ISBN 10: 1780270062
ISBN 13: 9781780270067
Publisher: BIRLINN GENERAL
Pub. date: 20 June, 2011
Pages: 96
Description: An adrenaline-fueled adventure based in Uist in the Outer Hebrides, with side trips to Glasgow, Hamburg and Amsterdam. Based around a memorable cast of characters including three inept crooks, an ex-communcant of the Free Church of Scotland who moonlights as an enforcer and a pair of Russian weight-lifters who raise ostriches.
Synopsis: A comedian, singer, composer, musician, linguist, actor, author and a favourite of Sean Connery and Billy Connolly's, Norman MacLean is a living legend in the Gaelic world. Based in the Uists in the Outer Hebrides, with side trips to Glasgow, Hamburg and Amsterdam, this dotty adventure embraces frustrated sex, drugs, eightsome reels and a memorable cast of oddball characters: three inept would-be criminals, a demented care-home resident, an ex-communicant of the Free Church of Scotland who moonlights as an enforcer, a pair of Russian weight-lifters who raise ostriches by day and mud-wrestle by night, and a formidable woman lawyer determined to cleanse the island of wrongdoing before HM The Queen arrives on her annual visit. Something akin to a mad Gaelic version of The Sopranos as directed by the Coen Brothers, this novella is a masterclass of understatement, pitch-perfect dialogue and confident narration.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Birlinn Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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