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Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D. Scottish Public Health Officer - Hardcover
The lives of two doctors become hopelessly entangled with a woman who was created by one of them, in a freewheeling novel set in nineteenth-century Glasgow and the Mediterranean. 15,000 first printing.
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The full title of this work, Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D. Scottish Public Health Officer, reflect a bit of wacky genius at work here. Someone named Alasdair Gray has found a memoir supposedly of a 19th-century public health officer in Glasgow. The truth of the memoir is suspect, nevertheless Gray manages to change it and then lose it. And that's just the backdrop. Inside the memoir is the story of McCandless, an acquaintance named Godwyn Bysshe Baxter who takes a suicide victim, gives her the brain of her unborn child to create a promiscuous and brutal girlfriend. The book, which won the 1992 Guardian Fiction Prize, takes off from there.
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Alasdair Gray was born in 1934 in Glasgow, where he still lives. A painter as well as a writer, Mr. Gray describes himself as "an artist in words and pictures." He is the author of Poor Things, Lannark, and 1982 Janine, among other novels and story collections.
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- PublisherHarcourt
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0151730768
- ISBN 13 9780151730766
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages317
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Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D. Scottish Public Health Officer
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1992, Hardcover First American Edition with alpha line: A B C D E. Book is Fine/Near New and if read then read very lightly; remainder marker line on the top text block, just a touch of a bump at the bottom of spine: a tight clean copy. Dust jacket is Fine and unclipped, just a few extremely light - just about invisible surface scratches and as such is listed as Very Near Fine - comes in a removable, archival, mylar sleeve. A brilliant copy, quite scarce. Seller Inventory # 002019
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First North American Edition. A clean unmarked copy in excellent condition. Dust jacket unclipped. Number line starts with "A". Light wear top and bottom edges of boards. 317 pages. Seller Inventory # 017472
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good, with somewhat softened spine ends and dusty top block edge, with a couple of spot stains to fore edge, in like wrapper, with commensurate wrinkling to wrapper and a slightly faded spine and tiny loss to one corner. First US printing ( A present). Signed as was his custom, to front free end paper To Mark in large caps, from Alasdair in smaller lower case. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 98922
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