Eyes of Rain and Ragged Dreams: Coming of Age in Edinburgh by Elcock, Michael

Eyes of Rain and Ragged Dreams: Coming of Age in Edinburgh (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780995880207)

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Eyes of Rain and Ragged Dreams: Coming of Age in Edinburgh by Elcock, Michael

Eyes of Rain and Ragged Dreams: Coming of Age in Edinburgh

$9.99
Eyes of Rain and Ragged Dreams: Coming of Age in Edinburgh by Elcock, Michael

Eyes of Rain and Ragged Dreams: Coming of Age in Edinburgh

$9.99
Format: Paperback
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Michael Elcock's fictionalised memoir 'Eyes of Rain and Ragged Dreams' is a rich coming of age work set in Edinburgh in the 1960's. Told with an entertaining blend of humour and vivid observation, the story shows youth pulled in diferent ways by a rigid educational system and the burgeoning freedom of the times. Dunphy, the son of a diplomat, and Grimmett, who comes from a broken home, develop an unlikely friendship at a top private school. Dunphy and Grimmett are set up by absent & na ve parents in a flat above a brothel. Their adventures take them from poaching trout to gambling dens and a brush with the law. Two of their friends die through suicide, and as an indirect result of one of those deaths Grimmett begins to learn about love. Available also as an Audiobook.

Author: Michael Elcock
ISBN-10: 0995880204
ISBN-13: 9780995880207
Publisher: Muckle Knock
Language: English
Published: 04/10/2017
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.48d
By Michael Elcock
By Michael Elcock
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Michael Elcock was born in Forres, Scotland, and grew up in Edinburgh and West Africa. He emigrated to Canada when he was twenty-one and worked in pulp mills, as a tree faller, on west coast fishing boats, and as a ski instructor-earning along the way a B.A. and M. Ed degree at the University of Victoria. Since then he has travelled widely, and worked and lived in Canada, the US, Spain and Scotland. He has published many articles in periodicals, newspapers and magazines in Canada and the UK, two works of non-fiction-'A Perfectly Beautiful Place' and 'Writing on Stone'-and a novel, 'The Gate'.

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