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The Collected Martin Millar (Paperback)

by Martin Millar (Author)
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  • Paperback: 537 pages
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd (7 May 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1857029100
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857029109
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.1 x 3.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 812,632 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Collected in one volume are three of Millar's novels, "The Good Fairies of New York", "Lux the Poet" and "Ruby and the Stoneage Diet", each written with a sharp eye for the details and absurdities of 20th-century urban life.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A good-value introduction to Millar's work, 4 May 1999
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This collection is a great introduction to Millar's work. It's at times, touching, hilarious and thought-provoking. The stories are full of hard drinkers, promiscuous liars, egotists, drop-outs and crusties, all of whom seem to in a band or want to be. But they are already incredibly human and likeable.

What I like best about Millar is the way he combines strange fantasies with the grim realities of inner city life in the late twentieth century. These three books are all excellent examples of this - renegade Scottish fairies arrive in New York amidst the squalor of unemployment and poverty.

I also love his optimistic take on everything which ultimately gives a truth to his work. You won't find the macho urban posturing associated with the likes of Irvine Welsh here (thank God). Millar's urban ghetto is filled with individuals with the sorts of harmless but narcissistic pre-occupations we all have, not with gun-toting hard-nuts (well, except for the fairies!).

Of the three books here, The Good Fairies... is probably the best, and worth the cover price on its own and is typical Millar.

Lux the Poet is set entirely during a night of rioting in London, with the main character, oblivious to what's going on around him, trying to get into the pants of his infatuation.

The third book is more of a literary b-side, but has its moments, especially the fantasy sex scene involving every sort of human bodily fluid, although I did begin to tire of it a little.

All in all, definitely worth a go. Something of an undiscovered genuis in my opinion, but then I must admit I don't read much!

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