A man finds a bald patch on the back of his head that looks curiously like a face,then discovers he's splitting in two. A bored student suggests digging a tunnel into the foundations of the art school. An elderly man is healed by hundreds of tiny people working on repairs inside his own head.Unlikely Stories,Mostly is Alasdair Gray's first collection of short stories. Gloriously illustrated,darkly funny,and steeped in myth and fable,they capture Gray's singular imagination.
Publisher: Canongate BooksISBN: 9781838852733Number of pages: 320Weight: 215 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 19 mmEdition: Main - Canons
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Unsettling,otherworldly...Not since William Blake has a British artist wed pictorial and literary talent to such powerful effectHis work is masterly...Temperamental radicalism,militant humanism and a number of recurring sexual,linguistic and aesthetic themes are woven together into a prose full of recondite allusions and brilliant innovationsAs you'd expect from a writer as talented as Gray,there are enough idiosyncratic pleasures knocking around to make the book well worth readingA series of fantastical fables,showing the influence of Kafka,Swift and Johnson's Rasselas...MemorableA necessary geniusOne of the brightest intellectual and creative lights Scotland has known in modern timesGray is a true original,a twentieth century William BlakeToo clever for its own good in parts,but otherwise a damned good readThis anthology may be likened to a vast architectural folly imblending the idioms of the Greek,Gothic,Oriental,Baroque,Scottish Baronial and Bauhaus schools. Like one who,absently sauntering the streets of Barcelona,suddenly beholds the breathtaking grandeur of Gaudi's Familia Sagrada,I am compelled to admire a display of power and intricacy whose precise purpose evades me. Is the structure haunted by a truth too exalted and ghostly to dwell in a plainer edifice Perhaps. I wonder. I doubt
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