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This Bildungsroman is set in the fictional Argyll town of Gallanach, the real village of Lochgair, and in Glasgow, where the adult Prentice McHoan lives. Prentice's uncle Rory disappeared eight years previously while writing a book called The Crow Road.
- Iain Banks
- 1992
The Crow Road: With Joe McFadden, Bill Paterson, Peter Capaldi, Valerie Edmond. An adaption of Iain Banks' dark novel, whose central character is a young Scots history student.
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- 1996-11-04
- Drama
- 211
Iain Banks' "The Crow Road" takes readers on a journey through the McHoan family's history, secrets, and the search for truth. With its engaging characters and intricate plot, the novel explores themes of family, love, betrayal, and coming-of-age.
Jan 1, 2001 · The Crow Road is a a long novel, not easily classified - it is both a coming of age piece and also a sprawling family drama, concerned with several generations of several Scottish families. This works perfectly fine until the last quarter, where it changes gears and focuses on becoming a mystery.
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- Paperback
- Iain Banks
The Crow Road is a coming-of-age story as only Iain Banks could write — an arresting combination of dark humor, menace, and thought-provoking meditations on the nature of love, mortality, and identity.
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- Iain Banks
The Crow Road is a four-part television miniseries by BBC Scotland in 1996, based faithfully on the 1992 novel of the same name by Scottish novelist Iain Banks. It was directed by Gavin Millar.
Jun 20, 2013 · Away the Crow Road. Remembering Iain Banks, an intensely political writer. By Helen Lewis. The title of Iain Banks’s 1992 novel The Crow Road comes from a Glasgow expression: its hero tries to work out if his uncle Rory has merely vanished temporarily, or if he has gone “away the Crow Road”.
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