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Near Neighbours (Paperback)
by Gordon Legge (Author)

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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Jonathan Cape (25 Jun 1998)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0224051202
ISBN-13: 978-0224051200

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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,162,624 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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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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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Scotland's own Hornby is on track again, 26 Jun 2000

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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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