Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer (A Harvest Book)

Gray, Alasdair

ISBN 10: 0156000687 / ISBN 13: 9780156000680

Published by Harvest Books, 1994

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Title: Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of...

Publisher: Harvest Books

Publication Date: 1994

Binding: Paperback

Condition: new

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Synopsis:

The lives of two doctors become hopelessly entangled with a woman who was created by one of them, in a novel set in nineteenth-century Glasgow and the Mediterranean

Review:

"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