- Hardcover: 222 pages
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape; First Edition edition (12 July 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0224026275
- ISBN-13: 978-0224026277
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 15.2 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 893,592 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Written by the author of "Janine", this is a novel about the love lives of June, Senga, Donalda and the distant cousin of a Queen, from 1963 to 1989. It's a story that starts rather near the end, has ten earlier beginnings, a crisis, a catastrophe and a moral.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Strange cross-genre novel,
By Durnovaria (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Something Leather (Picador Books) (Paperback)
Within a framing device of a pornographic fantasy (a quartet of women involved in a lesbian sadomasochistic orgy) this novel comprises vignettes of people across the social and political spectrum of Glasgow. It particularly concentrates on believable portraits, presented in complex intercut form, of the lives and relationships of the women that led to this scenario. As another reviewer comments, none of the characters are very sympathetic. Gray's women are cynical and cold, his men ineffectual and given to political lectures. Nevertheless, this is a very readable novel with interesting characterisation, particularly of Harriet, the autistic artist whose strange mindset stems from abuse as a child.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Flawed masterpiece,
By A Customer
This review is from: Something Leather (Picador Books) (Paperback)
Nice social observation and class-divide comedy, and the convoluted time-jumps of the plot reward repeated reading. Gray's illustrations and calligraphy, reminiscent of Eric Gill's work, make one wish that the whole thing could be handwritten.The characters, however, are unconvincing. We are never quite sure of their motivation, and they are almost universally unsympathetic. Nevertheless, a curio worth seeking out.
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4.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews) 9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Raves for Gray's leather-and-bondage Bildungsroman,
By Lee Story - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Something Leather (Hardcover)
It bewilders me that such a fine piece of work should drop out of print so quickly, while so much that's mediocre or worse gains a wide audience and many reprints. This comic and satirical novel is written in a neo-picaresque chain-of-stories form, and is a fine companion to Gray's prizewinning _Poor_Things_. Gray himself credits the inimitable Kathy Acker for the inspiration to write it. You'll never look at a woman in leather in the same way again. The nominal epilogue--really an essential part of the structure--may be the funniest part.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Something Leather,
By Walter Stockwell - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Something Leather (Hardcover)
Alasdair Gray is an interesting an unique voice... This is a fun little book, but best to find one with his illustrations. He is at his best when he uses his art and words together. Try to find one of the British editions.
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