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Product details
- ISBN 9781784707125
- Weight: 213g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 27 Nov 2017
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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After the scandalous theft of a pub's World Cup cash kitty, a homeless drifter pursues his eccentric uncle: 'The Man Who Walks', up into the Highlands to recover the money - a cool -27,000. The nephew's frantic, stalled progress and other bizarre diversions form this wickedly hilarious novel. But who is The Man Who Walks? Is he simply a water-carrying madman with one glass eye and a fondness for whisky and pony nuts, and who has a physiological inability to handle slopes? Or is he a savant, touched by the hand of God, wandering the back roads along ancient, ancestral tracks? And as the sinister, unstable nephew gains on The Man Who Walks, can it be that it will all end in a field and that this field is Culloden Moor?
Alan Warner is the author of three previous novels: Morvern Callar, which has been filmed by Lynn Ramsay and will be released in the autumn; These Demented Lands, which won the 1998 Encore Award, and The Sopranos, which is also to be filmed.
