{"product_id":"dance-of-the-apprentices-canongate-classics-4-9780862412975","title":"Dance Of The Apprentices Canongate Classics 4","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward Gaitens 1897-1966), was born in the Gorbals of Glasgow. Leaving  school at fourteen, he undertook a variety of casual jobs to support  himself over the years. When the First World War broke out he became a  conscientious objector and was imprisoned for two years. in Wormwood  Scrubs. In the 1930s he started to write, and his early attempts were  greatly encouraged by his fellow Glaswegian, the successful dramatist  James Bridie, who had become chairman of the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre  at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA number of Gaiten's short stories were first  published in the Scots Magazine. mostly based on his own life in the  Gorbals, these were later collected as Growing Up and Other Stories (1942). Six of these stories were incorporated into Dance of the Apprentices  (1948), a novel of city life and the turbulent years between the First  World War and the Depression. Gaitens continued to write from time to  time during the years in which he lived - virtually anonymously - in  Lond\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Canongate Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406375067991,"sku":"9780862412975","price":8.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dance-of-the-apprentices-canongate-classics-4-9780862412975","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}