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Roger Hutchinson

Silent Weaver

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In September 1939, groups of horsemen in battledress cantered down a broad, grassy plain on the western edge of Europe. The young men of the Western Isles were going to war again. They included a tall, shy 24-year-old called Angus MacPhee (1916-97). Angus returned from war alive but in chronic mental pain and was referred to the asylum in Inverness, where he spent the next 50 years of his life there. During his time at Craig Dunain Hospital, he retreated into his own silent world, and did not speak again until shortly before his death. But 'the quiet big man' as he was known spent his time creating a huge number of objects out of woven grass,… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-85790-089-0
  • EAN: 9780857900890
  • Produktnummer: 13835456
  • Verlag: Birlinn General
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 200 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 0 KB

Über den Autor


Roger Hutchinson is an award-winning author and journalist, who has written for, amongst others, the West Highland Free Press, the Scotsman, Guardian, Herald and the Literary Review. He has written a number of bestselling books, including Polly: the True Story behind Whisky Galore, The Soap Man, which was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year (2004) and Calum's Road (2007), which was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize.

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