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Author: Alasdair Gray
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 15
ISBN-13: 1841959073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Alasdair Gray
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781564783073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne 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.
Author: Alasdair Gray
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0862417376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlasdair 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.
Author: Alasdair Gray
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2010-10-22
Total Pages: 931
ISBN-13: 1847679625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlasdair Gray is Scotland's best known polymath. Born in 1934 in Glasgow, he graduated in design and mural art from the Glasgow School of Art in 1957. After decades of surviving by painting and writing TV and radio plays, his first novel, the loosely autobiographical, blackly fantastic Lanark, opened up new imaginative territory for such varied writers as Jonathan Coe, A.L. Kennedy, James Kelman, Janice Galloway and Irvine Welsh. It led Anthony Burgess to call him 'the most important Scottish writer since Sir Walter Scott'. His other published books include 1982 Janine, Poor Things (winner of the Whitbread Award), The Book of Prefaces, The Ends of our Tethers and Old Men in Love. In this book, with reproductions of his murals, portraits, landscapes and illustrations, Gray tells of his failures and successes which have led his pictures to be accepted by a new generation of visual artists.
Author: Alasdair Gray
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2012-11-15
Total Pages: 958
ISBN-13: 0857865625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Alasdair Gray
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2022-02-03
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 1838855343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this masterful retelling of one of the greatest works of world literature, Alasdair Gray - in his last work - offers an original translation in prosaic English rhyme. Lyrical and modern, this complete edition brings all three parts of Dante's epic journey through Hell and Purgatory and on to Paradise together in a single volume for the first time.
Author: Alasdair Gray
Publisher: Canongate Us
Published: 2005-01-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781841956268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFans of the work of Donald Barthelme, Kurt Vonnegut, George Saunders, and T. Coraghessan Boyle will revel in Alasdair Gray's masterful, witty collection. Gray's stories defy genre, and his angular, playful style, prodigious wit, and razor-sharp intellect are matched by his remarkable skill with the short-story form. In Job's Skin Game, the narrator humbly tells his life story like the evenings news. During a moment of awkward revelation, he shares the strangely exquisite pleasure he receives from scratching at the skin condition he's developed since losing his two sons in the Twin Towers tragedy and a small fortune in the dot-com meltdown. In Big Pockets with Button Flaps, a wily old man teases and taunts a pair of punk teenage girls as their confrontation takes on social implication through lightning-fast transfers of power and wit. The Ends of Our Tethers is vintage Gray--accessible, experimental, mischievous, wide ranging, beautifully written, and wise.
Author: Alasdair Gray
Publisher: Random House (UK)
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Kelman
Publisher: Random House (UK)
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780099585411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014-10-13
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 0393350169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnthony Burgess draws on his love of music and history in this novel he called “elephantine fun” to write. A grand and affectionate tragicomic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte that teases and reweaves Napoleon’s life into a pattern borrowed—in liberty, equality, and fraternity—from Beethoven’s Third “Eroica” Symphony, in this rich, exciting, bawdy, and funny novel Anthony Burgess has pulled out all the stops for a virtuoso performance that is literary, historical, and musical.
