From Scenes Like These
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 First edition | |
| Author | Gordon Williams |
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| Genre | Bildungsroman |
| Publisher | Secker & Warburg |
Publication date | 1968 |
| Publication place | Scotland |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 317 |
| ISBN | 1-87363-167-7 |
| OCLC | 37246162 |
From Scenes Like These is a 1968 novel by Gordon Williams. The novel, first published by Secker & Warburg, was shortlisted for the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969.[1] The title is taken from "The Cotter's Saturday Night", a poem by Robert Burns that describes Scottish rural life in an idyllic light.
Set in the west of Scotland during the 1950s, From Scenes Like These follows fifteen-year-old Duncan Logan as he leaves school to work on a farm. His youthful aspirations, fostered by reading authors such as John Dos Passos, are thwarted as he enters an adult world defined by alcohol, violence and betrayal, with his family scorning his attempts to better himself.[2]
