Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012
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Publisher Description
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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A defining voice in Scottish literature, Alasdair Gray has always been both a masterful teller of short stories and a cunning novelist. Never far from his fiction (and often in it), he has a rich, idiosyncratic voice and employs a postmodern tone that provides a wry look at modern life. Stories such as “The Crank That Made the Revolution” take us on an alternate, unusual path through the industrial revolution, while “No Bluebeard” shows us the frustrations of an old man’s attempts at love. Featuring, as the title suggests, every short story he’s written, this collection gathers his published work from 1951 to the present day, including 10 new ones. Gray’s own copious endnotes complete the volume and provide great insight into his majestic writing career.
