Fernie Brae: A Scottish Childhood by Hendry, J.F - 1987

Polygon, 1987. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 5" X 8. P/B 190 pages, condition is good. This book was first published in 1947 and is Hendry's only novel, drawing upon his earlier short stories. The novel is explicitly derived from Joyce's A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, tracing the young life of a sensitive, intelligent Glaswegian, David Macrae, from the formative images of his infancy to his solipsistic attack on the intellectual life of university.