Swing Hammer Swing!

Jeff Torrington, an assembly line worker in an auto factory, spent 30 years writing and rewriting this novel. God bless him, he pulled it off masterfully.

This tuneful novel traces the adventures of Tom Clay through the waning days of The Gorbals, a slum in Glasgow that is yielding slowly to the wrecking ball of urban renewal. But the story is slight compared with the voice, which is by turns musical, poetic, punny, and amateur-philosophical.

Scottish punk novel that strives to be Joycean. I couldn't get into it, but would gladly exchange my copy with someone who has a book s/he can't get into.