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Magnus Merriman - Eric Linklater

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Title
Magnus Merriman

Author
Eric Linklater

format
Paperback / softback

Publisher
Canongate Books

Language
English

UK Publication Date
20010101

Description

This hilarious novel charts the rise and fall (and perhaps the rise
again) of Magnus Merriman-would-be lover, writer, politician, idealist
and crofter-moved by dreams of greatness and a talent for farcical
defeat.

Convinced that 'small nations are safer to live in than
big ones', Magnus becomes a Nationalist candidate for the parliamentary
seat of 'Kinluce'.

With details based on Linklater's own
experiences in an East Fife by-election in 1933, the way is set for a
satirical and irreverent portrait of Scottish life, literature and
politics in the 1930s. Nothing is sacred and no-one is spared.

Eric Linklater (1899-1974) was born in Wales and educated in Aberdeen.
His family came from the Orkney Islands (his father was a master
mariner), and the boy spent much of his childhood there.

Linklater
served as a private in the Black Watch at the close of WWI, surviving a
nearly fatal head wound to return to Aberdeen to take a degree in
English. A spell in Bombay with the Times of India was followed by some
university teaching in Aberdeen again, and then a Commonwealth
Fellowship which allowed him to travel in America from 1928 to 1930.

Linklater's memories of Orkney and student life informed his first novel, White Maa's Saga
(1929), while the success of Poet's Pub in the same year led him to
take up writing as a full-time career. A hilarious satirical novel, Juan in America (1931), followed his American trip, while
the equally irreverent Magnus Merrimen (1934) was based on his experience as a Nationalist candidate for a by-election in East Fife.

Linklater
joined the Army once again in WWII, to serve in fortress Orkney, and
later as a War Office correspondent reporting the Italian campaign,
going on to write the official history. The compassionate comedy of Private Angelo (1946) was drawn from his Italian experience.

With
these and many other books, stories and plays to his name, Linklater
enjoyed a long and popular career as a writer. His early creative years
were described in The Man on my Back (1941), while a fuller autobiography, Fanfare for a Tin Hat, appeared in 1970.

Type
BOOK

Edition
New Edition

Keyword Index
Nationalism - Scotland - Fiction.|Scotland - Social life and customs - 20th century - Fiction.|Political fiction.|Satire.

Country of Publication
Scotland

Number of Pages
308

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