Based on a true story, Clyde The Magnificent focuses on a young teenage boy, clyde, born to two Scottish alcoholic immigrants, in the USA, and after suffering years of violent abuse at their hands in New York, stows away on board an ocean liner with his pet dog from new york back to his parents home town of Glasgow in search of a better life in the years after the second world war.
What follows is an extraordinary tale of resilience, and friendhips formed as Clyde, disalussioned with the slums, drunkeness and poverty in the city goes in search of the source of his namesake, the river Clyde.
what happens is a heartwarning story of human endurance, compassion, overcoming adversity and cruelty, all told with a depth of spirit and connection to nature lost to modern generations.
a must read.
