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The Making of Mickey Bell Kellan MacInnes

The Making of Mickey Bell von Kellan MacInnes

The Making of Mickey Bell Kellan MacInnes

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Zusammenfassung

Mickey Bell has HIV, is on the dole, and survives in the high flats in Drumkirk. Mickey once took the Journey of the Pipes from the leaky kitchen tap - out of Glasgow, to the edge of the Highlands, the reverse of the city's water supply - and now he's got a secret, he's been climbing Scotland's highest mountains, the Munros.

The Making of Mickey Bell Zusammenfassung

The Making of Mickey Bell Kellan MacInnes

It's September 2014 and Mickey Bell has HIV, is on the dole, and survives in the high flats in Drumkirk. When advocacy-worker Carmen filled in Mickey's benefits form she exaggerated his health problems and for the past five years he's been receiving incapacity living allowance for 'help getting around'. Now Mickey's psychotic ex, Tommy, grasses him to the benefit fraud hotline, and Mickey runs away. Accompanied by Tyke, a wee collie dog, and pursued by an investigator from the Department for Social Security, he sets out to climb his last Munro. With the background a celebration of Scotland's landscape, Mickey's personal journey from a life on benefits to a brighter future mirrors Scotland's journey towards independence.

The Making of Mickey Bell Bewertungen

'A stylishness and experimentalism that few novelists these days even dare.-Alan Bissett; 'Mickey takes off to the hills with his faithful -and very engaging - dog, and what we have is a sort of Highland road movie, rich in encounters, some unpleasantly violent, some comic, some touching, a few exhilarating.-Allan Massie, The Scotsman; 'This is a life-affirming book that keeps you reading.-Scottish Book of the Week, The Courier;'A triumphant journey of discovery.-Alex Roddie; 'One of the many joys of "The Making of Mickey Bell" by Kellan MacInnes is that it proves beyond doubt that there is always room for a new way of looking at a well-trodden subject, and that it is possible to produce as a result an outstanding book that is both memorable and unique.-Undiscovered Scotland; 'There is a lust for life, and for writing, which runs through the book, and which keeps you turning the page. I would love to know what Mickey Bell does next, but I'm even more keen to read more Kellan MacInnes.-Scots Whay Hae!

Über Kellan MacInnes

Diagnosed with AIDS related cancer in 1997 Kellan MacInnes cashed in his pension, went home and waited to die... only he didn't. Kellan's first book Caleb's List was shortlisted for the 2013 Saltire Society First Scottish Book Award. Since not dying of AIDS, he has been employed as a befriender, a painter and decorator, a life coach and a bike tour guide. He 'compleated' the Munros in September 2014. The Making of Mickey Bell is his first novel.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR008021957
9781910985274
1910985279
The Making of Mickey Bell Kellan MacInnes
Kellan MacInnes
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Sandstone Press Ltd
2016-09-15
320
N/A
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