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The Ends Of Our Tethers: Thirteen Sorry Stories Alasdair Gray

The Ends Of Our Tethers: Thirteen Sorry Stories By Alasdair Gray

The Ends Of Our Tethers: Thirteen Sorry Stories by Alasdair Gray


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The Ends of Our Tethers is vintage Gray - experimental, mischievous, wide-ranging but also subtly connected. And as always the work is hall-marked with his engaging prose style, dry wit and fecund imagination.

The Ends Of Our Tethers: Thirteen Sorry Stories Summary

The Ends Of Our Tethers: Thirteen Sorry Stories by Alasdair Gray

The Ends of their Tethers is vintage Gray - experimental, mischievous, wide-ranging but also subtly connected. And as always the work is hall-marked with his highly engaging prose style, dry wit and fecund imagination. These thirteen tales challenge prejudice, question social imbalances and explore human foibles. In No Bluebeard a socially reclusive man, veteran of three marriages, meets a disturbed and eccentric woman desperate to remain hidden from her family. In Job's Skin Game a father develops a skin condition in response to the emotional shock of losing his two sons in the September 11th attacks and his fortune in the dot com crisis. The exquisite pleasure he takes from scratching and peeling his dead epidermis becomes his sole preoccupation and a metaphor for what is ultimately a wholly sane response to tragedy. Wellbeing offers a politically charged dystopian vision of a future Britain as seen through the eyes of a once-revered writer, now homeless yet stubbornly refusing to move to a more hospitable country as, There are better ways of living than being happy but they require strength and sanity. Beautifully produced and illustrated throughout with Gray's distinctive drawings, this is an important and highly accessible collection.

About Alasdair Gray

Since 1981, when Alasdair Gray's first novel (Lanark: A Life in Four Books) was published by Canongate, he has published twenty books, most of them novels and short stories. In his own words, 'Alasdair Gray is a fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glaswegian pedestrian who has mainly lived by writing and designing books, most of them fiction.'

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GOR003740255
9781841954400
1841954403
The Ends Of Our Tethers: Thirteen Sorry Stories by Alasdair Gray
Used - Good
Hardback
Canongate Books
20031002
192
N/A
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