Dimensions
126 x 196 x 23mm
The Man Who Wanted To Smell Books.
Elspeth Davie is one of Scotland's finest and most underrated short story writers. Her prose style is as clear and occasionally unnerving as that of Muriel Spark, yet her work reveals a gentler and more compassionate, but no less penetrating eye for the beauty and the strangeness of the daily human condition.
Trained as a painter, she has an appreciation of space and the transformation of the ordinary, not least in the deceptively banal speech of her everyday characters. Chosen by Giles Gorden from five collections of short stories, this volume offers a unique chance to assess Elspeth Davie's best work.
