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Strange Faith
By Graeme WilliamsonIn the late 1950s Martin's father, a pilot, kills himself by walking into the propellers of his plane. So shocked she loses the power of speech, Martin's mother moves to Scotland, to stay with her brother. Uncle Robertson is a strange mystic, an ex-seaman, and Martin, desperate to escape as soon as he grows up, leaves for Edinburgh, where he searches for some kind of meaning through friends who are drop-outs and thieves.
Failing to find his answers, Martin leaves for Canada, and finds work in Toronto, driving buses to bust a strike. He meets more drifters, and stays for a year, working and saving money. When his girlfriend leaves, he hitches across Canada to Vancouver, where he catches a plane back to Edinburgh.
In the innocence of youth, Martin is surprised to find that life has flowed on in spite of him and Martin confronts his uncle for the meaning behind his mysticism.
Still unhappy, Martin realises that Scotland has little to offer him, so he moves back to Toronto, where he inherits money and finds some kind of understanding.
Key Features
One of the new fiction titles from 11-9, the Scottish fiction imprint launched in Autumn 2000 and backed by National Lottery Funding. Like 'On the Road' by Kerouac. A mesmerising, powerful story of our time in which 'Martin', disturbed by the death of his father and the effect this has on his mother, travels from Scotland to Canada in a search for understanding of and meaning for his own life.Ordering Information
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About Graeme Williamson
Graeme Williamson was born in 1948 in Montreal, Canada, but moved to the UK at six months. He lives now in Glasgow, but travelled extensively as a child and adult. He captures this sense of moving on in this, his first novel. He is a recent graduate of the Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities creative writing course.Related Items
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