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Unlikely Stories, Mostly (Canongate Classics)
 
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Unlikely Stories, Mostly (Canongate Classics) (Paperback)

by Alasdair Gray (Author), Alasdair. Gray (Illustrator)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd; New edition edition (1 Jan 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0862417376
  • ISBN-13: 978-0862417376
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 479,867 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This is Alastair Gray's first collection of short stories. This edition includes a new story, "Inches In a Column", that was lost at the time of original publication. He is the author of "Lanark", "Why Scots Should Rule Scotland" and won the Whitbread Prize for "Poor Things".

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5.0 out of 5 stars More revolutionary stuff from the crank who started it., 31 May 2004
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Gray's second turn, following his indespensible debut "Lanark", is a book that truly desrves the epithet "iconoclastic". We have never seen its like before nor, sadly, will we ever again. A series of short narratives that recall the surrealism and invention of "Lanark"'s 3rd and 4th books and that lay down the recurring themes that would mark Gray's work throughout the 1980s. From the opening tale of "The Star", a narrative written when Gray was only 17 and already displaying his prodigious talent, through the typographical pyrotechnics of "Logopandocy" to the utterly sublime "Five Letters from an Eastern Empire", Gray never fails to astonish or disappoint. As you would expect from the erstwhile artist, it is also a gorgeous book to behold, embellished with Gray's quirky black & white illustrations throughout and experimental typesetting that would come to a head in "1982, Janine".

"Unlikely Stories" is a perfect starting place for those curious about the work of Scotland's greatest living writer as well as essential for fans of his other work.

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