Someone Always Robs The Poor

Download or read book Someone always robs the poor written by Carl MacDougall and published by Cargo Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long-awaited new collection of stories from one of Scotland’s most acclaimed writers. A young man returns from London, facing the prospect of reunion with a young daughter he’s never met. A woman recounts her family’s doomed attempt to emigrate from Poland to America 70 years before. A creative writing tutor is shocked by the story of one of his students, who is connected to a past atrocity in Bosnia. A former architect fights a losing battle with alcoholism and the ghosts from his past. Here is a new collection of brilliant stories from the multi-award winning elder statesman of Scottish literature, exploring themes of poverty, migration, alienation, accountability and alcoholism, with an impressive depth and emotional range.