Walking Wounded (short story collection)
Walking Wounded is a collection of short stories written by William McIlvanney and published in 1989. Following a revival of interest in McIlvanney's writing, this book was reissued by Canongate Books in 2014. Plot. This interwoven collection of stories is set in the fictional Scottish town of Graithnock and captures the social and emotional struggles of ordinary people's lives. The short stories included in this collection are: Reception. Writing in the "Sunday Times", Mick Brown asserts that "McIlvanney's triumph is to find the consolation of hope even in the face of ... fatalistic  despair, to find poetry in the cadences of common speech, and the inner sadness of his subjects' lives, while always reaffirming their fortitude and resilience." Awards. This book won the 1990 Glasgow Herald People's Prize. McIlvanney wrote a screenplay based on one of these stories, "Dreaming", which was filmed by BBC Scotland in 1990 and won a BAFTA.