The Vintage Book Of Contemporary Scottish Fiction
Download The Vintage Book Of Contemporary Scottish Fiction full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free The Vintage Book Of Contemporary Scottish Fiction ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Peter Kravitz |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 1999-12-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The anthology features such stories as James Kelman's The Busconductor Hines, on the life of a bus conductor in Glasgow, Alison Fell's There's Tradition for You, an art model's rant, and Duncan McLean's Hours of Darkness, the impact on a community of the arrival of a stranger.
Author | : Peter Kravitz |
Publisher | : Andesite Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2015-08-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781297513787 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Peter Kravitz |
Publisher | : Scholar's Choice |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2015-02-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781293991909 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Peter Kravitz |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan Adult |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 9780330335515 |
‘Usually in diaspora, the intelligence of the Scots is recognized worldwide. These stories show that this capacity is now flourishing at home’ Ross Leckie, The Times ‘There could be not be a more heartening showcase of talent. A showcase, incidentally, that will remind those in need of it that in the past few decades Scottish fiction has been creating some of the most powerful, vibrant writing to be found anywhere . . . It will be a hard-hearted reader who does not emerge with a profound respect forthe imagination and scope of contemporary Scottish writing’ Rosemary Goring, Scotland on Sunday ‘It always helps to know where the editorial line of an anthology is coming from. This one, I can guarantee you, comes straight from the horse’s mouth’ Jenny Turner, Independent on Sunday ‘English north of the border is displayed in an exhilarating diversity of timbre and voice, with little sign of a cultural cringe towards standardization’ Tom Deveson, Sunday Times
Author | : Dermot Bolger |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1995-11-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Collects forty-six contemporary Irish short stories featuring contributions by notables including Mary Leland, William Trevor, Mary Dorcey, Patrick McCabe, and Brian Moore.
Author | : Muriel Spark |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2014-05-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811222411 |
Spark’s mind-bogglingly stunning 1957 debut With easy, sunny eeriness, Spark lights up the darkest things: blackmail, a drowning, nervous breakdowns, a ring of smugglers, a loathsome busybody, a diabolic bookseller, human evil.
Author | : Chris Bambery |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2014-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1781682844 |
A People’s History of Scotland looks beyond the kings and queens, the battles and bloody defeats of the past. It captures the history that matters today, stories of freedom fighters, suffragettes, the workers of Red Clydeside, and the hardship and protest of the treacherous Thatcher era. With riveting storytelling, Chris Bambery recounts the struggles for nationhood. He charts the lives of Scots who changed the world, as well as those who fought for the cause of ordinary people at home, from the poets Robbie Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid to campaigners such as John Maclean and Helen Crawfurd. This is a passionate cry for more than just independence but also for a nation based on social justice.
Author | : R. Mookerjee |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2013-05-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137341084 |
Often dismissed as sensationalist, transgressive fiction is a sophisticated movement with roots in Menippean satire and the Rabelaisian carnal folk sensibility praised by Bakhtin. This study, the first of its kind, provides a thorough literary background and analysis of key transgressive authors such as Acker, Amis, Carter, Ellis, and Palahniuk.
Author | : J. Karnicky |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2007-03-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230603599 |
This book argues for the ethical relevancy of contemporary fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Through reading novels by such writers as David Foster Wallace, Richard Powers, and Irvine Welsh, this book looks at how these works seek to transform the ways that readers live in the world.
Author | : Alexander McCall Smith |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2009-02-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307371719 |
Full-time philosopher and occasional sleuth Isabel Dalhousie, now the mother of a baby boy, is getting used to the new rhythms of her life, caring for little Charlie with the sometimes unsettling aid of her forthright housekeeper, Grace, having dinners with Charlie’s father, Jamie, and tending as usual to submissions to the Review of Applied Ethics. But Isabel is deeply unsettled when she receives a letter telling her that she is soon to be replaced as editor of the Review by Christopher Dove, an ambitious academic at a London university, and she considers a variety of ways of dealing with this unwelcome news. And her niece, Cat, who a couple of years before had rejected Jamie and broken his heart, is now furious at Isabel for having stolen him away. Isabel’s insatiable curiosity—or what Jamie sees as her tendency toward meddling—is peaked when she learns some odd details regarding two paintings by a Scottish artist that have come onto the auction market, and she begins to think that the paintings might be forgeries. Her investigation takes her to the beautiful Isle of Jura, where she finds some recent traces of the painter and learns of his apparent suicide in the fabled whirlpool called the Corryvreckan. A visit to the painter’s widow brings a surprising realization, one that contributes to her musings throughout the story on mothers, fathers, and sons.