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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Vagabond Voices

FORMAT: Electronic book text

ISBN: 9781908251572

RRP: £6.99

PUBLICATION DATE:
September 25, 2015

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Moon Country

Peter Arnott

Fifteen years ago, Tommy Hunter committed a terrible crime. Now pursued by his own bad memories and the attentions of his criminal companions of the past (as well as the present-day curiosity of the boys and girls in blue), Tommy is trying to put his family back together by the unlikely means of kidnapping them with the added allurement of a bag of stolen money. Moon Country is a wild and woolly Scottish Western, a family road movie, a slightly insane hermeneutic treatise on nationhoodand belonging, and a definitely lunatic quest for personal redemption. It’s also pretty funny. It is quite unlike anything you’ve ever read before. Peter Arnott has squared the circle by combining the demotic, the entertaining, the literary and the chaotic all within a surprisingly ordered structure. This is a book that stays with you once you’ve finished reading it: the many connections continue to emerge.

Reviews of Moon Country

On Scottish Book Trust's list of 15 More Scottish Novels to Look for in 2015.

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Peter Arnott

Born in Glasgow in 1962, Peter Arnott began his career as a playwright in Scotland in May 1985 with the simultaneous premieres of The Boxer Benny Lynch and White Rose. Forty-something plays later, he has won the TMA (2003), Creative Scotland (2007) and Fringe First (2012) awards. He has been writer-in-residence at the Traverse, the Tron and the National Library of Scotland. His plays have been performed in London, Moscow, Melbourne and New York. Moon Country is his first novel.