The Devil's Carousel is a magical tour on the floor of the Centaur Car Company automobile plant. It is a place peopled by bizarre and memorable characters - Tombstone Telfer, who believes smiling causes cancer; Curly Brogan, the militant shop steward renowned for his rank odor; and the Martians, Centaur's bean counters and managers who convene high above the shop floor and decide how to build cars without letting the work force in on the secret. But the devil must have his due, and the comic setting gives way to tragic events.

The Devil's Carousel

Torrington, Jeff

Literature & Fiction

Harcourt

In Glasgow, Scotland, during the late 1960s, Jeff Torrington faces several life crises--unemployment, the premature birth of his child, the prospect of homelessness, and a gaggle of petty gangsters at his heels. A first novel.

Swing Hammer Swing!

British & Irish

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

In Glasgow, Scotland, during the late 1960s, Thomas Clay faces several life crises--unemployment, the premature birth of his child, the prospect of homelessness, and a group of small-time gangsters at his heels

Mariner Books

By the winner of the 1992 Whitbread Award, this novel takes a memorable trip down the assembly line of the Centaur Car Company. The journey frequently borders on the surreal and is studded with bizarre characters, such as Tombstone Telfer, a man who believes smiling is a fatal condition.

DEVIL'S CAROUSEL

Contemporary

Secker Warburg

A novel offering a sardonic and surreal view of the car industry. The Centaur Car Company's top management convenes in the boardroom to consider how to build a car to the highest standards possible without letting the workforce in on it. The author won the Whitbread Award for "Swing Hammer Swing!".

Martin Secker & Warburg Limited

Set in the Gorbals, Glasgow in the late '60s. Christmas is approaching and Thomas Clay is beset by problems: his pregnant wife Rhoda is in the maternity hospital prematurely; he's waiting for a housing transfer; he has no job and his novel is unpublished. Goodwill does not, it seems, extend to him.

Swing Hammer Swing

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

An "energetic, irreverent and very funny" (New York Times Book Review) first novel set in Glasgow during a single week in the late sixties. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called it "a rich Scotch broth of language, steaming with metaphor...and pungent dialect." Winner of Britain's Whitbread Book of the Year Award.

Minerva Geneva

Following Tam Clay around the Gorbals slums of 1960s Glasgow, Torrington combines lyrical verve with dark comedy in this modern odyssey of self-discovery. Direct, aggressive, with an eye for a witty pun and an ear for Glaswegian dialect, Torrington bends language to his uncompromising will. A riotous urban picaresque, Jeff Torrington's comic novel marked a milestone in Scottish literature.

Swing Hammer Swing! (Vintage Classics)

Humor & Satire

Vintage Classics

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S.Fischer

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The Devil's Carousel

Swing Hammer Swing!

Swing Hammer Swing!

DEVIL'S CAROUSEL

The Devil's Carousel

Swing Hammer Swing

Swing Hammer Swing

Swing Hammer Swing! (Vintage Classics)

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