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Alan Sharp

Born

in Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland

January 12, 1934

Died

February 08, 2013

Genre

Fiction

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Alan Sharp, born Alan Foote, was a Scottish novelist and screenwriter. He published two novels in the 1960s, and subsequently wrote the screenplays for about twenty films, mostly produced in the United States.

Sharp was raised in Greenock, Scotland, the son of a single mother, and he was adopted at the age of six weeks by Margaret and Joseph Sharp, a shipyard worker. His adoptive parents belonged to a Salvation Army church.

His first novel, A Green Tree in Gedde, was published in 1965 to acclaim and won the 1967 Scottish Arts Council Award. It was banned in Scotland for a time due to its sexual content. It was the first part of a proposed trilogy, and Sharp published the second novel, The Wind Shifts, in 1967. The third novel, whi ...more

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	A Green Tree in Gedde really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1965 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	A Sense of Belonging to Scotland: Further Journeys by Andy Hall, Alan Sharp (Contributor), Ian Rankin (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Paris is quite a place, to look at as well as the people. I suppose it's because so much has happened here and you know it even if you don't know what it is. In Greenock you know nothing ever happened nor ever will happen, in the historical sense I mean, so you look at it differently, or you don't look at it at all.”
― Alan Sharp, A Green Tree in Gedde

tags: greenock

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“To the west are the residential streets, wide, treey, high cambered and in genteel disrepair. There are few tenements and further out only the large square sandstone houses of the doctors and lawyers and owners and inheritors, of the clergy and the architects and the retired wealthy. There are no shops and few cars and children play faintly in back gardens. There is quiet and the regular grid of the streets beats a slow drum, the tempo of security. Here the prosperous have always lived and had the message boys come cycling out on big basketed bikes, have walked their dogs and trimmed their privets and the reiteration of these events has given to the place a distinctive brooding aura.”
― Alan Sharp, A Green Tree in Gedde

tags: greenock, message-boys, suburbia, west-end

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“Greenock lies along the Clyde littoral and is built up onto the hills behind. Thus it is a long lateral town and the streets rise steeply and provide open view of the river and the Argyllshire hills. In the winter there is snow on them and in the summer their great tawny flanks are charred occasionally by heather fires. They are seen across an expanse of roofs and chimneys, the slates dull purple scales and the ridges presided by clumps of lums, cans churning and smoke pennons flying. The buildings are of sandstone block, greybuffs and occasional reds, and are erected in monolithic tenements, achieving their only rhythm in the flowing lines enforced by the land.”
― Alan Sharp, A Green Tree in Gedde

tags: argyll, chimneys, firth-of-clyde, greenock, slates, tenements

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