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Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D. Scottish Public Health Officer - Hardcover
The lives of two doctors become hopelessly entangled with a woman who was created by one of them, in a freewheeling novel set in nineteenth-century Glasgow and the Mediterranean. 15,000 first printing.
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"It wouldn't be an exaggeration to hail Alasdair Gray as one of Scotlands greatest living novelists." -- The List Festival Guide 9-15th August 2001
"The greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott" -- Anthony Burgess
'A marvellous, endearing book ... a virtuoso feat of literary ventriloquism' -- New Statesman and Society
'The greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott' -- Anthony Burgess
'This work of inspired lunacy effectively skewers class snobbery, British imperialism, prudishness and the tenets of received wisdom' -- Publishers Weekly
'Witty and delightfully written' -- New York Times Book Review
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"The greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott" -- Anthony Burgess
'A marvellous, endearing book ... a virtuoso feat of literary ventriloquism' -- New Statesman and Society
'The greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott' -- Anthony Burgess
'This work of inspired lunacy effectively skewers class snobbery, British imperialism, prudishness and the tenets of received wisdom' -- Publishers Weekly
'Witty and delightfully written' -- New York Times Book Review
Alasdair Gray won the the Whitbread and Guardian Awards for POOR THINGS. He is also the author of THE BOOK OF PREFACES, the story-collection, TEN TALES TALL AND TRUE, and the groundbreaking modern classic, LANARK.
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- PublisherHarcourt
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0151730768
- ISBN 13 9780151730766
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- EditorGray Alasdair
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Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D. Scottish Public Health Officer
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First North American Edition. A clean unmarked copy in excellent condition. Dust jacket unclipped. Number line starts with "A". Light wear top and bottom edges of boards. 317 pages. Seller Inventory # 017472
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