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Swing Hammer Swing! by Torrington, Jeff, 1935- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Swing Hammer Swing! about?
"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housing - or for his tenement to be demolished beneath his very feet; he has no job, and his novel is, as yet, unpublished.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."--BOOK JACKET.
Who reads Swing Hammer Swing!?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Torrington, Jeff, 1935-
- Publisher
- New York: Harcourt Brace
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780151874279
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.95 / 5 (172 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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