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Every Short Story By Alasdair Gray 1951 2012
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Author : Alasdair Gray
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2012-11-15
Every Short Story By Alasdair Gray 1951 2012 written by Alasdair Gray and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-15 with Fiction categories.
The first sixteen tales in this collection were published by Canongate in 1983 with the title Unlikely Stories, Mostly. This collection also has fifty-seven tales from later books, plus sixteen new ones written for the hardback publication of this collection. This last section, Tales Droll and Plausible, shows that Gray's recent twenty-first-century fiction is as uncomfortably funny and up to date as his earliest.
Every Short Story 1951 2012
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Author : Alasdair Gray
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2012
Every Short Story 1951 2012 written by Alasdair Gray and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Fiction categories.
An authoritative collection of Alasdair Gray's stories gathered over the last twenty five years.
Lanark
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Author : Alasdair Gray
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2007
Lanark written by Alasdair Gray and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Fiction categories.
This novel is a work of extraordinary imagination and wide range. Its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love and yet our compulsion to go on trying.
The Catcher In The Rye
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Author : J. D. Salinger
language : en
Publisher: ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
Release Date : 2024-06-28
The Catcher In The Rye written by J. D. Salinger and has been published by ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-28 with Fiction categories.
The Catcher in the Rye," written by J.D. Salinger and published in 1951, is a classic American novel that explores the themes of adolescence, alienation, and identity through the eyes of its protagonist, Holden Caulfield. The novel is set in the 1950s and follows Holden, a 16-year-old who has just been expelled from his prep school, Pencey Prep. Disillusioned with the world around him, Holden decides to leave Pencey early and spend a few days alone in New York City before returning home. Over the course of these days, Holden interacts with various people, including old friends, a former teacher, and strangers, all the while grappling with his feelings of loneliness and dissatisfaction. Holden is deeply troubled by the "phoniness" of the adult world and is haunted by the death of his younger brother, Allie, which has left a lasting impact on him. He fantasizes about being "the catcher in the rye," a guardian who saves children from losing their innocence by catching them before they fall off a cliff into adulthooda. The novel ends with Holden in a mental institution, where he is being treated for a nervous breakdown. He expresses some hope for the future, indicating a possible path to recovery..
The Ends Of Our Tethers
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Author : Alasdair Gray
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Us
Release Date : 2005-01-13
The Ends Of Our Tethers written by Alasdair Gray and has been published by Canongate Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-13 with Scotland categories.
Fans of the work of Donald Barthelme, Kurt Vonnegut, George Saunders, and T. Coraghessan Boyle will revel in Alasdair Gray's masterful, witty collection. Gray's stories defy genre, and his angular, playful style, prodigious wit, and razor-sharp intellect are matched by his remarkable skill with the short-story form. In Job's Skin Game, the narrator humbly tells his life story like the evenings news. During a moment of awkward revelation, he shares the strangely exquisite pleasure he receives from scratching at the skin condition he's developed since losing his two sons in the Twin Towers tragedy and a small fortune in the dot-com meltdown. In Big Pockets with Button Flaps, a wily old man teases and taunts a pair of punk teenage girls as their confrontation takes on social implication through lightning-fast transfers of power and wit. The Ends of Our Tethers is vintage Gray--accessible, experimental, mischievous, wide ranging, beautifully written, and wise.
Unlikely Stories Mostly
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Author : Alasdair Gray
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 1997
Unlikely Stories Mostly written by Alasdair Gray and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Drama categories.
Alasdair Gray's first book of short stories is a masterful collection that further established him as one of Scotland's most original writers. This edition marks the first appearance by Gray in the Canongate Classics list.
The Big Book Of Modern Fantasy
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Author : Ann Vandermeer
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2020-07-21
The Big Book Of Modern Fantasy written by Ann Vandermeer and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-21 with Fiction categories.
WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNER • A true horde of fantasy tales sure to delight fans, scholars, and even the greediest of dragons—from bestselling authors Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Step through a shimmering portal ... a worn wardrobe door ... a schism in sky ... into a bold new age of fantasy. When worlds beyond worlds became a genre unto itself. From the swinging sixties to the strange, strange seventies, the over-the-top eighties to the gnarly nineties—and beyond, into the twenty-first century—the VanderMeers have found the stories and the writers from around the world that reinvented and revitalized the fantasy genre after World War II. The stories in this collection represent twenty-two different countries, including Russia, Argentina, Nigeria, Columbia, Pakistan, Turkey, Finland, Sweden, China, the Philippines, and the Czech Republic. Five have never before been translated into English. From Jorge Luis Borges to Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock to Angela Carter, Terry Pratchett to Stephen King, the full range and glory of the fantastic are on display in these ninety-one stories in which dragons soar, giants stomp, and human children should still think twice about venturing alone into the dark forest. Completing Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's definitive The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, this companion volume to takes the genre into the twenty-first century with ninety-one astonishing, mind-bending stories. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL
Poor Things
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Author : Alasdair Gray
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2023-10-10
Poor Things written by Alasdair Gray and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-10 with Fiction categories.
Basis for the Major Motion Picture starring Emma Stone, Ramy Youssef, Mark Ruffalo, and Willem Dafoe, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. "Witty and delightfully written" (New York Times Book Review), Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things echoes Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in this novel of a young woman freeing herself from the confines of the suffocating Victorian society she was created to serve. Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize In the 1880s in Glasgow, Scotland, medical student Archibald McCandless finds himself enchanted with the intriguing creature known as Bella Baxter. Supposedly the product of the fiendish scientist Godwin Baxter, Bella was resurrected for the sole purpose of fulfilling the whims of her benefactor. As his desire turns to obsession, Archibald’s motives to free Bella are revealed to be as selfish as Godwin’s, who claims her body and soul. But Bella has her own passions to pursue. Passions that take her to aristocratic casinos, low-life Alexandria, and a Parisian bordello, reaching an interrupted climax in a Scottish church. Exploring her station as a woman in the shadow of the patriarchy, Bella knows it is up to her to free herself—and to decide what meaning, if any, true love has in her life. “Gray has the look of a latter-day William Blake, with his extravagant myth-making, his strong social conscience, his liberating vision of sexuality and his flashes of righteous indignation tempered with scathing wit and sly self-mockery.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “This work of inspired lunacy effectively skewers class snobbery, British imperialism, prudishness and the tenets of received wisdom.”—Publishers Weekly
Mcgrotty And Ludmilla
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Author : Alasdair Gray
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2021-02-18
Mcgrotty And Ludmilla written by Alasdair Gray and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-18 with Fiction categories.
Mungo McGrotty’s career in Whitehall is going nowhere. But when he finds the mysterious (and deadly) Harbinger Report, he realises he can blackmail his way to the very top. This twisted Grayian retelling of the Aladdin story under the Thatcher regime sees our hero rise from pawn to power. But at what cost?
Dante S Divine Trilogy
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Author : Alasdair Gray
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2022-02-03
Dante S Divine Trilogy written by Alasdair Gray and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-03 with Poetry categories.
In this masterful retelling of one of the greatest works of world literature, Alasdair Gray - in his last work - offers an original translation in prosaic English rhyme. Lyrical and modern, this complete edition brings all three parts of Dante's epic journey through Hell and Purgatory and on to Paradise together in a single volume for the first time.