
ABOUT THIS BOOK
PUBLISHER: Vintage
FORMAT: Hardback
ISBN: 9780224062947
RRP: £16.99
PAGES: 308
PUBLICATION DATE:
May 30, 2002
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The Man Who Walks
The imaginative new novel from the author of “Morvern Callar,” soon to be released in film. After the scandalous theft of a pub’s World Cup cash kitty, a homeless drifter pursues his eccentric uncle, “The Man Who Walks,” into the Highlands to recover the money. The nephew’s frantic progress and other bizarre diversions form Alan Warner’s fourth, 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, who collects old Christmas trees for money and old newspapers to make his home? Or is he a savant, touched by the hand of God, wandering the back roads along ancient, ancestral tracks? “From the Trade Paperback edition.”
Reviews of The Man Who Walks
"A savage, surreal and very original imagination."-"Sunday Telegraph""From the Trade Paperback edition."
Alan Warner
Alan Warner is the author of three previous novels: “Morvern Callar,” soon to be a film by Lynn Ramsay; “These Demented Lands,” which won the 1998 Encore Award; and “The Sopranos,” also soon to be a film. “From the Trade Paperback edition.”