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Swing Hammer Swing! by Torrington, Jeff, 1935-2008 is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Jeff Torrington's startlingly original first novel is set in Glasgow, Scotland, during a single-week in the late sixties. Christmas is approaching, and Thomas Clay is beset with mounting problems: his wife is in the maternity hospital prematurely; he's waiting for news of their transfer to "Legoland" high-rise housing - or for his tenement to be demolished beneath his very feet; he has no job, and his novel is, as yet, unpublished. Staggering from crisis to crisis, Thomas Clay is a man pursued - by petty gangsters, his Mafia-like in-laws, a doppelganger, and by time itself. He may imagine he has evaded the tyranny of clocks by escaping the nine-to-five, but no matter how fast he runs, the Grim Reaper seems cold on his heels. <p>Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year for 1992, Jeff Torrington's startlingly original first novel is set in Glasgow, Scotland during a single week in the late sixties. Christmas is approaching, his wife is in the maternity hospital prematurely, his building is about to be demolished. Then, even more difficulties arise. . . . </p>

Who reads Swing Hammer Swing!?

Author

Torrington, Jeff, 1935-2008

Publisher

Secker & Warburg

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780749397470

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.95 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14