Genres: Fiction - Literary Fiction - Crime - British Literature - Contemporary - Novels - Literature
Pig Iron is the story of John-John, a young man wrestling with the legacy of brutality left by his bare-knuckle boxer father, King of the Gypsies, Mac Wisdom. His new job as an ice cream man should offer freedom, but instead pulls John-John into the dark recesses of a north-east town where his family name is mud.
As he attempts to trade prejudice, parole officers and local gangs for his ‘green cathedral’ - the rural landscape in which he seeks solace - Mac’s rise and bloody downfall threatens to engulf John-John’s present.
A far cry from the recent media stereotyping of travellers, Pig Iron is a sensitive portrayal of Britain’s most marginalised and misunderstood ethnic group. More than anything, it is about the redemptive power of nature and the landscape of post-industrial northern England.
Pig Iron is the story of a traveller who hasn’t travelled; a young man fighting for his surname and his very survival.
Publisher information
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ISBN:9781526611185 Number of pages:304 Dimensions:196 x 128 x 20 mm Weight:220 g Language:English
