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Ten Tales Tall and True

Alasdair Gray author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:19th Apr '04

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An original and brilliantly eccentric collection of stories from the legendary Scottish author of Lanark and Poor Things

An original and brilliantly eccentric collection of stories from the author of Lanark and Poor Things An original and brilliantly eccentric collection of stories from the legendary Scottish author. A lecturer cornered in an embarrassing ménàge à trois, a Glaswegian Cinderella and an extremely talkative dentist all feature in this dazzlingly original collection of tall tales from Alasdair Gray, award-winning author of Lanark, Poor Things and The Book of Prefaces. Bringing together social realism, sexual comedy, science fiction and satire, Ten Tales Tall and True proves that truth is indeed much stranger than fiction. 'Gray is a true original, a twentieth century William Blake' OBSERVER 'The greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott' ANTHONY BURGESS 'One of the most gifted writers to have put pen to paper in the English language' IRVINE WELSH

‘The greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott' * Anthony Burgess *
‘He is our nearest contemporary equivalent to Blake, our sweetest-natured screwed-up visionary' * Evening Standard *

ISBN: 9780747568179

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 12mm

Weight: 149g

176 pages