{"product_id":"9781408148594","title":"McLean Plays: 1: Julie Allardyce; Blackden; Rug Comes to Shuv; One Sure Thing; I'd Rather Go Blind","description":"Duncan McLean is one of Scotland's liveliest fiction and non-fiction writers - this is his first volume of plays\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulie Allardyce rushes into the theatre like a fresh breeze off the North Sea. It is loud and coarse-tongued and funny . . . a play which opens doors and shoves the audience through into areas of new experience' (Scotland on Sunday); Blackden: 'Something of a revelation . . . A gripping, ominous meditation on the strange disappearance of a young man in his prime, driven along by the hard, powerful lilt of McLean's Aberdeenshire Scots' (Scotland on Sunday); also included are Rug Comes to Shuv: 'nasty, brutish and hilarious . . . fast, furious and foul-mouthed, it enriches the belly laughs with unexpectedly poignant undercurrents' (The Scotsman) and two other short pieces, One Sure Thing and I'd Rather Go Blind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A magnificent writer with liberal empathy for man's dark side\" (Daily Telegraph)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121862820080,"sku":"9781408148594","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781408148594_p0.jpg?v=1763718070","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781408148594","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}