A lecturer cornered in an embarrassing ménage a Trois, a Glaswegian Cinderella, and an extremely talkative dentist all feature in this brilliant and original collection of tall tales from Alasdair Gray, author of Lanark, Poor Things and The Book of Prefaces.
Bringing together social realism, sexual comedy, science fiction and satire, Ten Tales Tall and True proves that truth is indeed much stranger than fiction.
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Eight men dug a trench beside a muddy crossroads, and the mud made two remember Italy where they had fought in a recent war. HOUSES AND SMALL LABOUR PARTIES
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(@BloomsburyBooks, 6 September 2014, first published 1993, ebook, 177 pages, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @OverDriveLibs)
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I read a battered old copy of Lanark years ago. It blew me away. I still treasure the book and have read nothing as incredible as it since. I've read other books by Gray since and have found them just okay but not a patch on his masterpiece which is disappointing. This is a mixed bag of stories. I really enjoyed some, but others left me cold. I didn't really like the satirical stories to be honest.
