(我们的底线)The EndS of Our Tethers: 13 Sorry Stories
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作者： Alasdair Gray著
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出版时间： 2003-1-1字数：版次： 1页数： 181印刷时间： 2005/04/01开本：印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781841956268包装： 平装内容简介
Gray, the Scottish author of the novels Lanark and the Whitbread-winning Poor Things, among others, returns to the form he first visited in Unlikely Stories, Mostly with a collection filled with wry and mordant humor. In these 13 stories, Gray dances across many of the discontents of modern life, but lingers at the divides of gender and age. Set mainly in Glasgow during the present day, the talesâ?"many so short they're more like sharp, eccentric sketchesâ?"feature characters and narrators who observe their world with a mixture of wistfulness and disappointment. "Big Pockets with Button Flaps" opens with a pair of teenage girls trading banter with an old man with odd, semisexual proclivities and closes with a series of reversals in situation and power. In "No Bluebeard," a man recounts his three failed marriages and the unexpected surrender that led to a successful fourth ("It is almost impossible to judge the intelligence of someone from an alien culture so I have never discovered exactly how stupid or mad Tilda is"). In "Miss Kincaid's Autumn," a brother and sister live together far more harmoniously than most married couples, while "Aiblins" centers on the frustrating interactions between an established poet and the young, half-crazed upstart who may or may not be the genius he claims to be. This is a book with a sneaky, cumulative power; the prose is as spare and provocative as the illustrations of leering demon skulls and sly young women drawn by Gray himself.
目录
Big Pockets with Buttoned Flaps
Swan Burial
No Bluebeard
Pillow Talk
Moral Philosophy Exam
Job's Skin Gamc
Miss Kincaid's Autumn
My Ex Husband
Sinkings
Aiblins
Property
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Wellbeing
End Notes and Critic Fuel