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SUMMARY:Manchester Literature Festival presents Douglas Stuart 
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DESCRIPTION:We’re delighted to welcome back to Manchester Literature Fest
 ival Booker Prize-winning novelist Douglas Stuart\, to discuss his profo
 undly moving new novel John of John\, set on the Isle of Harris. \n \nRe
 turning home after his art school years on the mainland\, John-Calum Mac
 leod is drawn back into a tightly bound Hebridean community shaped by fa
 ith\, silence and watchful scrutiny. Caught between his devout father Jo
 hn\, sheep farmer and weaver\, and his Glaswegian grandmother\, Cal navi
 gates desire and masculinity. As the seasons change\, the fragile balanc
 e holding family and community together is threatened. \n  \nTender\, im
 mersive and unflinching\, John of John explores the weight of family exp
 ectation\, the compromises demanded by love and the devastating cost of 
 lives constrained by silence. \n \nThis is a unique opportunity to hear 
 from one of the most vital voices in contemporary fiction. \n \n‘John of
  John has the emotional range and sense of sympathy of Douglas Stuart’s 
 earlier novels\, but this book is special\, it has an urgency\, an immed
 iacy\, a brilliant sense of place.’ Colm Tóibín \n \nThe novel is so imm
 ersive\, so all-encompassing\, that I felt like I was living in it. \nDo
 uglas Stuart has written something brilliant and rare.’ Ann Patchett  \n
  \nDouglas Stuart was born and raised in Glasgow and now lives in New Yo
 rk. After graduating from the Royal College of Art\, he began a career i
 n fashion design. His debut novel Shuggie Bain won the Booker Prize and 
 the British Book Awards’ Debut and Book of the Year and was shortlisted 
 for the National Book Award. His second novel\, Young Mungo\, was a numb
 er one Sunday Times bestseller\, and his work has appeared in The New Yo
 rker. \n \nPresented in partnership with the Centre for New Writing and 
 Creative Manchester. 
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LOCATION:Contact Theatre\, Oxford Road\, Manchester \, M15 6JA
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