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Something Leather by Alasdair Gray (Hardcover, 1990)

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Fine copy of this bound proof/ARC of the hardback 1st edition. Uncommon in proof state.

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Something Leather is about the love-lives of June, Senga, Donalda and a distant cousin of a queen from 1936 to 1990. Also in it are unhappy children, a dangerously liberal headmistress, a tobacconist's family,a student, a night-watchman, pimp, businessman, boilerman, policeman, ex-serviceman, quiet couple, tinker, nurse, commerical traveller, arts administrator, former Lord Provost, Glasgow comedian, worried civil servant, briliant but unstable politician, lighthoue keeper and trained cormorant. This is the first British fiction sicne The Canterbury Takes to show such a wide social range in emabrrassign sexual detail, yet no characters are based on real people, even the Glasgow comedian. The inefficient Scottish office department in the epilogue never existed - since 1967 its work has been efficiently done by the office of the ombudsman. The story starts near the end, has ten earlier starts, a crisis, a catastrophe and a moral. Unlik Alasdair Gray's other books, Something Leather has no fantasy, and combinesthe amenities of a novl with the varieties of a short story collection.