The Lucky Charm of Major Bishop
A Grotesque Mystery of Fife
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Grace Note Publications
Published:1st Jul '14
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
A vulnerable and bullied boy vanishes from a boarding-school in an austerely beautiful part of the Scottish county of Fife. A young nurse from the American South encounters love - and culture-clash - at the school. Her beau, a teacher and former army officer, is a tense and troubled man. A precocious young aesthete stumbles towards maturity. A lecherous, alcoholic headmaster quotes Shakespeare at inopportune moments. Tragedy? Farce? Both? Offset by praise-poetry to Fife landscape and folk culture, Tom Hubbard's complex, sardonic tale scurries through unexpected corridors and caverns, up and down dubious stairs, its secret architecture reflecting the "Big Hoose" in which much of the action takes place -
"The wandering scholar is a great European tradition and Scotland has had her share, poets, singers, the restless and endlessly curious, travelling workers in literature, language and the arts. Among the most distinctive riches yielded by this tradition, Tom Hubbard's poems are evocative encounters with places, people, political and personal states, that range across Europe and history, centred in his own Scottish sensibility, but receptive to, exploring and describing, different nations, artists and cultures." --- ALAN RIACH, poet and Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow
ISBN: 9781907676482
Dimensions: 203mm x 133mm x 11mm
Weight: 200g
188 pages