Vintage Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction

Name: Vintage Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction
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ISBN: 9780679775508

ISBN-10: 0679775501

ISBN-13: 9780679775508

Edition: 1999

Authors: Peter Kravitz

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The Vintage Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction honors Scotland's explosive and innovative national literature with 47 of its finest representatives. In addition to excerpts from writers such as Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting, Marabou Stork Nightmares) and James Kelman (How Late It Was, How Late), this vibrant collection includes voices new to the international scene. Alison Fell ignites the page with an art model's rant in "There's Tradition for You." Duncan Williamson reinvents a rural storytelling tradition in the poignant "Mary and the Seal." And in his brilliant introduction, editor Peter Kravitz explores Scottish writers' conflict with publishers at home and abroad--from critics who…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/7/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Introduction


When Shankland Comes



from In the Middle of the Wood



Mary and the Seal



from After Colette



My Childhood



from Lanark



The Fade



At the Bar



In the Bare Lands



A Monk's Tail



Original Sin



from The Lights Below



The Political Piano



from It Might Have Been Jerusalem



Honest



from Cells of Knowledge



from The Busconductor Hines



Phyllis Marlowe: Only Diamonds Are Forever



There's Tradition For You



from A Sparrow's Flight



Undue Haste



Brilliant



from Electric Brae



from A Very Quiet Street



Not About the Kids



La Plume de Ma Tante



All the Little Loved Ones



from Dreams of Sex and Stage Diving



Seven Magvies



from The Trick is To Keep Breathing



from The Bridge



Watch Out, the World's Behind You



from Trainspotting



The Last Black Hoose



A Deep Hole



from Pfitz



from Trumpet



Life on a Scottish Council Estate Vol. I



Get Lost



The Unthinkable Happens to People Every Day



The Farmer's Wife



Hours of Darkness



Incidents on the Road



The Man Who Walks



from Looking for the Possible Dance



St. Andrew's Day



Glass Cheques



Biographical Notes


Acknowledgements