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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.

This wide-ranging collection of the very best of Elspeth Davie's short fiction offers an important reassessment of a wonderful writer.

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    A Paperback / softback by Elspeth Davie, Giles Gordon

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      Publisher: Canongate Books
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 17/09/2001
      ISBN13: 9781841952000, 978-1841952000
      ISBN10: 1841952001

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.

      This wide-ranging collection of the very best of Elspeth Davie's short fiction offers an important reassessment of a wonderful writer.

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