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Mavis Belfrage: With Five Shorter Tales (Paperback)

by Alasdair Gray (Author)
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  • Paperback: 164 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; New edition edition (11 April 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747530890
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747530893
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,193,612 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A collection of stories that describe painful kinds of education, the title story describing how an uninhibited woman educates a prim Scottish lecturer.


About the Author

Alasdair Gray is the author of, among other things, the Whitbread and Guardian Prize-winning novel Poor Things and the story-collection Ten Tales Tall and True.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Teachers: six sorry stories, 1 Jun 2004
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Alasdair Gray has never been the most uplifting of writers - even when he enters the realm of fancy or humour, it is always with a bittersweet edge. This is perhaps most evident in "Mavis Belfrage", ostensibly a novel - in actuality a book of six short tales. Here we are firmly grounded in the real world, with no magic lamps or deus ex machina; every tale rings horribly true [especially for those of us within the thankless profession of education]. Although there are no happy endings, a real sesnse of pleasure can be derived from the intelligence, observations and execution of every tale. Gray's exquisite prose almost sings from the page with the gentle lilt of the Scottish vernacular.

This receives four stars due to the absense of Gray's playful imagination of the fantastic which raises his other books above the realm of the ordinary. Even when operating within the bounds of reality, however, Gray still manages to outshine most of his contemporaries [with the possible exceptions of Jim Kelman and Janice Galloway].

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