Gillespie
by J. MacDougall Hay
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Peebles, Scottish Borders, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Condition: Fair edge-wear to the boards, no DJ. The interior is clean without markings except for the previous owner's name in pencil. The spine is faded with spots. The edges are very slightly dust-toned with age. It's a good reading copy.
A leech, a pirate, a predator, an anti-Christ, a public benefactor and the fisherman's friend; such is Gillespie Strang in this remarkably powerful Scottish novel. Gillespie is the harsh prophet of the new breed of Scottish entrepreneur, prepared to use any means to achieve his insatiable ambition amongst the nineteenth-century fishing communities of the west coast.
John MacDougall Hay (1881-1919) was born and raised in Tarbert, Loch Fyne, on which he based the setting for "Gillespie". A Church of Scotland minister, his knowledge of such communities and his sombre vision of good and evil shape this, his finest novel.
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- Bookseller
- Thistle and Heather Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2840
- Title
- Gillespie
- Author
- J. MacDougall Hay
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Gerald Duckworth
- Date Published
- 1963
- Weight
- 1.43 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Scotland; Fiction;
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