The Big Man (novel)
The Big Man is a novel by William McIlvanney published in 1986 based on real life miner and bare knuckle boxer Thomas Tallen. The book was adapted into a film directed by David Leland, The Big Man (1990), which stars Liam Neeson as the character based on Thomas Tallen, Billy Connolly, and Hugh Grant.
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| Author | William McIlvanney |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton (UK), William Morrow & Co (US) |
Publication date | 1985 (UK), 1 May 1986 (US) |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 978-0688064051 |
Plot
This novel relates the story of Dan Scoular, an unemployed man who turns to bare-knuckle boxing to make a living.[1]
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gollark: The sum of roots thing? That doesn't tell you the roots, though.
gollark: And I can clearly tell in some domains when someone is better at something than me, even if I don't know exactly how.
gollark: The halting problem is that no Turing machine can tell if arbitrary Turing machines will halt though? No complexity hierarchy involved except theoretical oracle things.
gollark: Regardless of whether you think they are impossible or not, IQ tests and similar things are, as far as I know, correlated with stuff like educational attainment and income.
References
- Bailey, Hilary (5 September 1985). "A matter of manner/ Review of new fiction". The Guardian.
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