num_pages: 240
description: Alasdair Gray's first book of short stories is a masterful collection that further established him as one of Scotland's most original and important writers when it first appeared in 1983. This new edition, includes a new unlikely story, "Inches in a Column", that was lost at the time of original publication. "An impressive, playful and beautiful book..". -- Times Literary Supplement "The book is a wonder of ingenuity, a varied and rich collection in which Gray's abilities as a visual artist and illustrator are placed not only beside but within the products of his fertile imagination as a writer". -- The Washington Post
language: English
title: Unlikely Stories, Mostly
titlecomplete: Unlikely Stories, Mostly (Canongate Classic)
characters: Sir Thomas Urquhart, Vague McMenamy
genres: Classics, British Literature, Fantasy, Short Stories, Scotland, 20th Century, Unfinished, Fiction
ratings_count: 551
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Cheltenham Prize for Literature
publisher: Canongate U.S.