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Cain's Book, Arches, Glasgow

There are some tasks I mentally file away under the classification of "Glass Mountain without crampons".

But Alan McKendrick is a singularly determined sort, bonded to the late Alexander Trocchi's last novel, Cain's Book, ever since he read it as a schoolboy and subsequently hankered to open it up to wider audiences. This work-in-progress – put together in three weeks, under the auspices of Stewart Laing's Untitled Projects and The Arches – is the first step in that ambitious direction, and a thoroughly engrossing one at that.

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