Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land,where the short story has flourished for over two centuries. Here are chilling supernatural stories from Robert Louis Stevenson,Eric Linklater and Dorothy K. Haynes; side-splittingly funny stories from Alasdair Gray and Irvine Welsh; a stylish offering from urban realist William McIlvanney. Iain Crichton Smith evokes the Gaelic-speaking highlands,George Mackay-Brown the Orkney islands,Andrew O'Hagan working-class Glasgow; while Leila Aboulela,originally from Sudan,ponders the relations between colonizers and colonized from her home in Aberdeen. Though there is no one'Scottishness'that binds the authors together,writes editor Gerard Carruthers,each has a Scottish footprint or accent. And perhaps more importantly,all are masters of their form.
Publisher: EverymanISBN: 9781841596358Number of pages: 480Weight: 479 gDimensions: 189 x 125 x 33 mm
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