The Ends of Our Tethers: 13 Sorry Stories - Softcover

Gray, Alasdair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841956260 ISBN 13: 9781841956268

Publisher: Canongate Us, 2005

Synopsis

Fans of the work of Donald Barthelme, Kurt Vonnegut, George Saunders, and T. Coraghessan Boyle will revel in Alasdair Gray's masterful, witty collection. Gray's stories defy genre, and his angular, playful style, prodigious wit, and razor-sharp intellect are matched by his remarkable skill with the short-story form. In Job's Skin Game, the narrator humbly tells his life story like the evenings news. During a moment of awkward revelation, he shares the strangely exquisite pleasure he receives from scratching at the skin condition he's developed since losing his two sons in the Twin Towers tragedy and a small fortune in the dot-com meltdown. In Big Pockets with Button Flaps, a wily old man teases and taunts a pair of punk teenage girls as their confrontation takes on social implication through lightning-fast transfers of power and wit. The Ends of Our Tethers is vintage Gray-accessible, experimental, mischievous, wide ranging, beautifully written, and wise.

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate Us
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1841956260
• ISBN 13: 9781841956268
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192