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    These Demented Lands

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    ISBN: 9780099577911
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    AuthorWARNER, ALAN
    Pub Date31/01/1998
    BindingPaperback
    Pages224
    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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    An aircrash investigator haunts the hinterlands of an island. A woman makes landfall on the island, and DJ Cormorant is trying to organise a rave on the adjacent airstrip. This work features twisted characters - The Arganout, the Knife Sharpener, The Devil's Advocate and others - converging for one final Saturday night at the Drome Hotel.

    'A sequel to his acclaimed debut Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, confirms that Alan Warner boasts an extravagant talent...This novel is set on a Scottish island that contains a variety of weird landmarks and an hallucinogenic cast of characters - including a DJ who wants to set up the rave to end all raves, a visitor whose job is to assess candidates for sainthood and the wonderfully unfazed heroine, Morvern Callar' - Harry Ritchie, Mail on Sunday A powerful, hilarious and original novel about the intersection of lives in the rough and ready communities and wild landscapes of the Scottish Highlands.