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Kevin MacNeil
Kevin MacNeil was born and raised in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Novelist, poet, playwright, editor, aphorist and lyricist, his books include The Stornoway Way, Love and Zen in the Outer Hebrides and Be Wise Be Otherwise. He is currently working on an album with William Campbell, a new novel, a film, a play and a travelogue-memoir based on his 1,300km cycle down the Danube in September 2009 for two cancer charities. Kevin has held a number of prestigious writing residencies in Scotland and continental Europe, including the University of Edinburgh. His awards include: the Tivoli Europa Giovani International Poetry Prize; the inaugural Iain Crichton Smith Writing Fellow; a J.B. Priestley Award; and a Millennium Quality Award.
Read an interview with Kevin here.
Find out more about Kevin and his work at kevinmacneil.wordpress.com.
Kevin MacNeil Reveals All
03 September 10
Being congenitally nosey, we put some questions to Kevin MacNeil author of A Method Actor's Guide to Jekyll and Hyde. And being Polygon, we decided not to ask him the kinds of things everyone else would.
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Method Actor's Guide to Jekyll and Hyde, A
ISBN: 9781846971839
Category: Fiction
Author: Kevin MacNeil
Publication Date: June 2011
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Price: £7.99
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‘A funny, irreverent and moving 21st-century look at human nature, and an intriguing rewiring of a classic’ DOUG JOHNSTONE, THE HERALD
'Brilliant, touching, funny and clever’ WEST HIGHLAND FREE PRESS
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Method Actor's Guide to Jekyll and Hyde, A
ISBN: 9781846971693
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Author: Kevin MacNeil
Publication Date: September 2010
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Price: £12.99
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'MacNeil's novel, though drawing on Stevenson's novella, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, is never slavishly derivative. His Method Actor's Guide is, in its finest glinting moments, that "whole new thing" of which Hemingway wrote, and from first to last an enticing read,' - Tom Adair, The Scotsman
After a bike crash in a foggy Edinburgh, troubled young actor Robert Lewis wakes to find that life has changed for the darker. And the weirder. A Method Actor's Guide to Jekyll and Hyde is a dark, maniacal thriller that explores many kinds of duality - individual, social and cultural, and is a heartfelt tale about the search for belonging and the nature of love and desire. It is also bloody funny.
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