Poor Things
1992 novel by Alasdair Gray / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the novel. For its film adaptation, see Poor Things (film).
Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer is a novel by Scottish writer Alasdair Gray, published in 1992. It won the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize the same year.[1][2]
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Author | Alasdair Gray |
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Cover artist | Alasdair Gray |
Country | Scotland |
Language | English |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Press |
Publication date | 1992 |
Media type | Print (hardback and paperback) |
Preceded by | McGrotty and Ludmilla |
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The novel was called "a magnificently brisk, funny, dirty, brainy book" by the London Review of Books. It is a departure from Gray's usual subject-matter of Glasgow realism and fantasy. However, its Victorian narrative takes in Gray's previous concerns with social inequalities, relationships, memory and identity.[3]