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Pages 320 Genre Fiction Publisher Allen & Unwin | 3.9/5 Goodreads Originally published 6 February 1975 Page count 320 ISBN 9780048231185 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publication date 6 February 1975 (1975-02-06) Similar William McIlvanney books, Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Docherty is the third novel by William McIlvanney, first published in 1975.
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Plot
The book is set in a fictional mining town in Scotland in the early part of the 20th Century, and it relates the struggles of a miner called Tam Docherty and his family.
Background
McIlvanney said the novel was "an attempt to democratise traditional culture, to give working-class life the vote in the literature of heroism."
Awards
References
Docherty (novel) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA