Every Short Story, 1951-2012

Every Short Story, 1951-2012 PDF Author: Alasdair Gray
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 9780857865601
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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An authoritative collection of Alasdair Gray's stories gathered over the last twenty five years.

Every Short Story, 1951-2012

Every Short Story, 1951-2012 PDF Author: Alasdair Gray
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 9780857865601
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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An authoritative collection of Alasdair Gray's stories gathered over the last twenty five years.

Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012

Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012 PDF Author: Alasdair Gray
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 0857865625
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 958

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The first sixteen tales in this collection were published by Canongate in 1983 with the title Unlikely Stories, Mostly. This collection also has fifty-seven tales from later books, plus sixteen new ones written for the hardback publication of this collection. This last section, Tales Droll and Plausible, shows that Gray's recent twenty-first-century fiction is as uncomfortably funny and up to date as his earliest.

Lanark

Lanark PDF Author: Alasdair Gray
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1841959073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 15

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This novel is a work of extraordinary imagination and wide range. Its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love and yet our compulsion to go on trying.

Poor Things

Poor Things PDF Author: Alasdair Gray
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564783073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenstein that replaces the traditional monster with Bella Baxter--a beautiful young erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of an infant. Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of Bella, but his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless's jealous love for Baxter's creation.The hilarious tale of love and scandal that ensues would be "the whole story" in the hands of a lesser author (which in fact it is, for this account is actually written by Dr. McCandless). For Gray, though, this is only half the story, after which Bella (a.k.a. Victoria McCandless) has her own say in the matter.Satirizing the classic Victorian novel, Poor Things is a hilarious political allegory and a thought-provoking duel between the desires of men and the independence of women, from one of Scotland's most accomplished authors.

The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye PDF Author: J. D. Salinger
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316460001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books. "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.

The Best American Short Stories 2012

The Best American Short Stories 2012 PDF Author: Tom Perrotta
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547242107
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 381

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Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

The Best American Short Stories ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

The Best American Short Stories ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Unlikely Stories, Mostly

Unlikely Stories, Mostly PDF Author: Alasdair Gray
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 0862417376
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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Book Description
Alasdair Gray's first book of short stories is a masterful collection that further established him as one of Scotland's most original writers. This edition marks the first appearance by Gray in the Canongate Classics list.

Something Leather

Something Leather PDF Author: Alasdair Gray
Publisher: Random House (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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1982 Janine

1982 Janine PDF Author: Alasdair Gray
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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1982, Janine is a liberal novel of the most satisfying kind. Set over the course of one night inside the head of Jock McLeish, an aging, divorced, alcoholic, insomniac supervisor of security installations, as he tipples in the bedroom of a small Scottish hotel, it makes an unanswerable case that republicanism is a state of absolute spiritual bankruptcy. For Jock McLeish, being a Republican is something he has to cure himself of, every bit as much as his alcoholism and his Sado-Masochistic fantasizing, if he is to become a human being again. 1982, Janine explores themes of male need and inadequacy through the lonely, darkly comic, alcohol-fueled fantasies of its protagonist. An unforgettably challenging book about power and powerlessness, men and women, masters and servants, small countries and big countries, Alasdair Gray's exploration of the politics of pornography has lost none of its power to shock.