Author | William McIlvanney |
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Publisher | Allen & Unwin |
Publication date
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6 February 1975 |
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."