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Docherty (novel)

Docherty
Author William McIlvanney
Publisher Allen & Unwin
Publication date
6 February 1975 (1975-02-06)
Pages 320
ISBN

Docherty is the third novel by William McIlvanney, first published in 1975.

The book is set in a fictional mining town in Scotland in the early part of the 20th Century, and it relates the struggles of a miner called Tam Docherty and his family.

McIlvanney said the novel was "an attempt to democratise traditional culture, to give working-class life the vote in the literature of heroism."



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