The Man Who Wanted To Smell Books. Elspeth Davie

• Тип: Текст
• Автор: Elspeth Davie
• Издательство: Ingram(2020)
• Серия: Canongate Classics
• ISBN: 9781847674975
• Страниц: 487
• Язык: Английский

• Жанры: Юмористическое фэнтези, Контркультура, Современная зарубежная литература, Юмористическая фантастика

Introduced by Giles Gordon. <br/> Elspeth Davie is one of Scotland’s finest and most underrated short-story writers. Her prose style is as clear and occasionally unnerving as that of Muriel Spark, yet her work reveals a gentler and more compassionate, but no less penetrating eye for the beauty and the strangeness of the daily human condition. <br/> This wide-ranging collection of the very best of Elspeth Davie’s short fiction offers an important reassessment of a wonderful writer. <br/> ‘Exceptionally powerful . . . this is a most impressive collection, a work of genuine imagination. And Mrs Davie’s measured, subtly cadenced prose is a pleasure to read.’ Observer <br/> ‘Mrs Davie commands a beautifully clear prose style that she can intensify when necessary to touch the hem of poetry.’ Edinburgh Evening News <br/> ‘ Shows the skill and originality of the writer in articulating and devising images for human doubts and ambiguities.’ Herald