Lanark, an inhabitant of the sunless city of Unthank, mysteriously turns up at the Institute, where he consults the Oracle and, in search of his past, embarks on a journey through the Intercalendrical Zone

Lanark: A life in four books (Harper colophon book)

Gray, Alasdair

Harper&Row

Basis for the Major Motion Picture starring Emma Stone, Ramy Youssef, Mark Ruffalo, and Willem Dafoe, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. "Witty and delightfully written" (New York Times Book Review), Alasdair Gray's Poor Things echoes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in this novel of a young woman freeing herself from the confines of the suffocating Victorian society she was created to serve. Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize In the 1880s in Glasgow, Scotland, medical student Archibald McCandless finds himself enchanted with the intriguing creature known as Bella Baxter. Supposedly the product of the fiendish scientist Godwin Baxter, Bella was resurrected for the sole purpose of fulfilling the whims of her benefactor. As his desire turns to obsession, Archibald's motives to free Bella are revealed to be as selfish as Godwin's, who claims her body and soul. But Bella has her own passions to pursue. Passions that take her to aristocratic casinos, low-life Alexandria, and a Parisian bordello, reaching an interrupted climax in a Scottish church. Exploring her station as a woman in the shadow of the patriarchy, Bella knows it is up to her to free herself--and to decide what meaning, if any, true love has in her life. "Gray has the look of a latter-day William Blake, with his extravagant myth-making, his strong social conscience, his liberating vision of sexuality and his flashes of righteous indignation tempered with scathing wit and sly self-mockery." --Los Angeles Times Book Review &nbsp;"This work of inspired lunacy effectively skewers class snobbery, British imperialism, prudishness and the tenets of received wisdom."--Publishers Weekly

Poor Things [Movie Tie-in]: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Mariner Books

Stories describe a Chinese emperor's court poet, the sun, the Industrial Revolution, falling stars, an art school, and a magical dog

Unlikely Stories, Mostly

British & Irish

Penguin??Books

As Jock McLeish drinks alone in a hotel room, he drunkenly looks back on the wild adventures of his eventful life

1982 Janine

Kelvin Walker is in London to make his fortune. He plans to start at the top and through his absurd ambition a megalomania surfaces that is unrelieved by his insensitive and ruthless attempts at friendship and romance. Yet is he all bad?

THE FALL OF KELVIN WALKER (KING PENGUIN)

Contemporary

Penguin

Gray serves up a dazzling mixture of social realism, sexual comedy,science fiction, and satire here. A New York Times Notabale Book of the Year, this is a "highly imaginative" (Newark Star-Ledger) collection of stories from "one of the sprightliest and wittiest of living prose writers" (San Francisco Chronicle). Illustrated by the Author.

Ten Tales True and Tall

Describing etiquette, government, irrigation, education, clogs, kites, rumour, poetry, justice, massage, town-planning, sex and ventriloquism in an obsolete nation Alasdair Gray was born in 1934. He obtained a diploma in Design and Mural Painting in 1957 and has since earned his living in Glasgow, mostly by painting and writing. Much of his fiction is published in Penguin, including 1982 Janine, Poor Things, Ten Tales Tall &amp; True and Unlikely Stories, Mostly, from which Five Letters from an Eastern Empire is taken. His new novel, A History Maker, is forthcoming in Penguin.Cover illustration by Alasdair Gray

Five Letters From an Eastern Empire

Ten stories, told in different voices, by the author of Poor Things, touch upon such themes as the train of the future, a portrait of old age, and a child deciding whether to be male or female. 15,000 first printing.

Ten Tales Tall & True: Social Realism, Sexual Comedy, Science Fiction, and Satire

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

A History Maker

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Harvest Books

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

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

Genre Fiction

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