Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!
Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!
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Torrington, Jeff. Swing Hammer Swing! First American edition. New York, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. 23.5 x 15.5cm. 407 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition. Inscribed by pre-owner on front free endpaper. Swing Hammer Swing won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award on its publication in Great Britain in 1992. The novel is set in Glasgow, Scotland, during a single-week in the late sixties. Christmas is approaching, and Thomas Clay is beset with mounting problems: his wife is in the maternity hospital prematurely; he’s waiting for news of their transfer to “Legoland” high-rise housing – or for his tenement to be demolished beneath his very feet; he has no job, and his novel is, as yet, unpublished. Staggering from crisis to crisis, Thomas Clay is a man pursued – by petty gangsters, his Mafia-like in-laws, a doppelganger, and by time itself. He may imagine he has evaded the tyranny of clocks by escaping the nine-to-five, but no matter how fast he runs, the Grim Reaper seems cold on his heels.
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