𝔖 Bobbio Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦

Cover of Ten Tales Tall and True

Ten Tales Tall and True

✍ Scribed by Gray, Alasdair


Book ID
108551013
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Weight
2 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781408856338

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


A lecturer cornered in an embarrassing menage 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.


📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES


Ten Tales Tall and True
📂 Standards 🏛 Bloomsbury Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

A lecturer cornered in an embarrassing menage 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 c

cover
✍ Ramsey Campbell; Michael Marshall Smith; Sarah Pinborough; James Barclay; Edward 📂 Fiction 📅 2016 🏛 NewCon Press 🌐 English ⚖ 353 KB

The final anthology produced in celebration of NewCon Press' 10th anniversary. Ten Tall Tales of horror, dark fantasy and dark science fiction, commissioned from some of the most twisted imaginations writing today. Each story is inter-leafed with a Twisted Limerick from that master of terror, Ramsey

cover
✍ Philip Rintoul 📂 Fiction 📅 2021 🏛 Austin Macauley Publishers 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 1 MB

Philip Rintoul shares his love of fictional short stories. Terse and powerful prose conveys the stories and vignettes of life of how people rise and cope with their challenges. From the carefree newlyweds in 'Wedge-Tail' to the gritty demands of business in 'Mad Friday' and the shadowy world of 'Ret

cover
✍ Saknussemm, Kris 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Random House Digital, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

Enigmatic Pilot is Kris Saknussemm’s outrageously brilliant yet profoundly moving exploration and excavation of the American dream—and nightmare. In 1844, in a still-young America, the first intimations of civil war are stirring throughout the land. In Zanesville, Ohio, the Sitturd family—Hephaestus

cover
✍ Saknussemm, Kris 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Random House Digital, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

Enigmatic Pilot is Kris Saknussemm’s outrageously brilliant yet profoundly moving exploration and excavation of the American dream—and nightmare.   In 1844, in a still-young America, the first intimations of civil war are stirring throughout the land. In Zanesville, Ohio, the Sitturd family—Hephaest

cover
✍ Saknussemm, Kris 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Random House Digital, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

Enigmatic Pilot is Kris Saknussemm’s outrageously brilliant yet profoundly moving exploration and excavation of the American dream—and nightmare. In 1844, in a still-young America, the first intimations of civil war are stirring throughout the land. In Zanesville, Ohio, the Sitturd family—Hephaest