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Near Neighbours (Paperback)
by Gordon Legge (Author)
4.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)

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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New Ed edition (3 Jun 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099272679
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099272670
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,319,386 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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"One of the self-professed 'Children of Albion Rovers' returns with a short-story collection which is as demented, aggressive and refreshingly unpleasant as Alan Warner, Duncan McLean, et al., the triad of music, drugs and football is interspersed with fetishm, family drama and cross-dressing. Each tale takes the normality of its characters and recasts it in a theatre of absurdity. If the short story format is akin to photography, Gordon Legge is its Scottish Diane Arbus."
--Arena

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A second collection of stories from a master of broad farce. It introduces the reader to an eccentric world peopled by characters who, ordinarily enough, live for football, music and sex, but who are also monopedes, cross-gender doppelgangers, window-fetishists or sock-throwers.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Scotland's own Hornby is on track again, 26 Jun 2000
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This review is from: Near Neighbours (Paperback)
Gordon Legge was described once as having "an ear like a recording angel". How right a description that was, for here - in his second collection of short stories - he has captured the essence and dialogue of small town life and love as only he can.

The stories, more ambitious and more bizarre than his previous collection, also bring more warmth and heart into his writing, particularly in Pop Life (about three record playing, list making friends) where he establishes himself as a rival to the Nick Hornby crown.

Legge is carving a neat niche for his writing, as the voice of the disaffected, urban, small-town individual, who enjoys football and music and the pub and signs on every week. Long may he continue.

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