Another Street, Another Dance
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Another Street, Another Dance is the warm, gutsy Glasgow novel long awaited since Clifford Hanley’s classic Dancing in the Streets. Here he returns to the warm, sprawling life of the old tenements, the street games, the intellectual and political ferment of the twenties and thirties, the hard times and the unquenchable energy that made the city sing. In Meg Macrae, the innocent girl from the Islands who learns to cope with the big city, and men, and children, the author has given us one of the great heroines of our time, and the boy child Peter trails clouds of authentic glory. The story sweeps through the troubled depression years, from Red Clydeside to the Spanish Civil War, and on through the tumultuous events of 1939 to 1945. Meg survives a gritty marriage, numerous family crises, and a strange venture into business, and keeps her brood going by her inner strength while the world changes around her. Another Street, Another Dance is the story of how it was: the story of a city and an era. It is a romance, a documentary, a feast of nostalgia, a political history. But first and last it is a tale teeming with blazing characters and rich in colour. It has been well worth waiting for.
Published:
1983 Edinburgh, Mainstream
1984, New York, St. Martin's Press
1984, London, Corgi. Reprint 1985
Comments:
" ... funny, entertaining, compassionate and in its own, thoroughly admirable way, wise."
Glasgow Herald
" ... his prose bubbles, spurts and fizzles with an energy which seems almost inexhaustable."
British Book News
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