- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited (23 July 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0748662294
- ISBN-13: 978-0748662296
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,454,643 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Lives Up to Its Name, 17 Jan 2000
By David Brannan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hoots!: Anthology of Scottish Comic Writing (Paperback)
"Hoots!" is very entertaining. What drew me to it was the fact that it contains a poem by Alison Kermack, whom I consider Scotland's greatest living poet. That she is also probably Scotland's most neglected poet should come as no surprise. This anthology (and the editors stress that it is merely AN anthology of Scottish comic writing, not THE anthology) spans the last two centuries or so of Scottish literature, including short stories, poems, and excerpts from novels, peppered throughout with quotes about Scotland and its sense of humor, or fabled lack thereof. Robert Crawford's "Alba Einstein" talks about how Scotland reinvents itself when it finds out Albert Einstein was born in Glasgow: "Einstein Used My Fruitshop," "A.E. Fun Park," and of course "Albert Suppers" complete with "The Toast to the General Theory." Harry Ritchie's "Brief Encounter" deals with two drunken Scots -- one of whom claims to be an extraterrestrial -- and a missing Glasgow landmark. James Robertson's "Sympathy for the De'il" is the story of a Scottish schoolboy named Lucifer -- an accident, of course -- or is it? Irvine Welsh (of "Trainspotting" fame) weighs in with an excerpt from "The Acid House" entitled "Where the Debris Meets the Sea," a perhaps drug-induced parallel universe in which Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Victoria Principal, and Kim Basinger mope around a Santa Monica beach house watching TV, lamenting, in thick Scots dialect, that they'll probably never get to visit glamorous Leith, Scotland and its chic factory workers. Hilarious! This is a great collection. I was disappointed, however, that the editors chose to include "Notes on the Editors," but nothing at all about their contributors! Send them an angry e-mail -- but don't let it stop you from buying this book.
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