Children of Albion Rovers : New Scottish Writing
Welsh, Irvine; Alan Warner; Gordon Legge; James Meek; Laura J. Hird; Paul Reekie; Kevin Williamson (ed.)
Language: English
Published by Overlook, Woodstock, N.Y., 1997
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| Fine in fine dustjacket. 'Six edgy novellas from "the beats of Edinburgh"'.
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- Title
- Children of Albion Rovers : New Scottish Writing
- Author
- Welsh, Irvine; Alan Warner; Gordon Legge; James Meek; Laura J. Hird; Paul Reekie; Kevin Williamson (ed.)
- Publisher
- Overlook, Woodstock, N.Y.
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0879517751
- ISBN 13
- 9780879517755
- Edition
- First American Edition
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Reviews
Urban Scottish grunge, which the hit movie Trainspotting made world famous, began as a literary phenomenon; six good examples of it make up this book. Gordon Legge's "Pop Life" leads off disarmingly, tracing the rock-centered friendship of Martin, Ray, and Hilly from their teens to their thirties, when, except for their records, they have little in common. The next three entries--a grimly humorous novel excerpt by Alan Warner, a Samuel Beckettish comedy about parking-ticket-writing traffic wardens by James Meek, and Paul Reekie's "Submission," a poet-intellectual's raffishly disgusting letter to a younger writer--are more what one expects: the drink-and-drug-sodden capers of various lumpen types. A schoolteacher's willing seduction by a curvaceous teen goes awry in Laura J. Hird's "The Dilating Pupil," and aliens under the influence of an Edinburgh street tough try to take over the world in "The Rosewell Incident" by Irvine Welsh, author of the novel Trainspotting. Brutal, funny stuff, like James Kelman's Busted Scotch. Ray Olson
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