Something Leather

by Alasdair Gray

Book Overview

According to the author, Something Leather combines the amenities of a novel with the variety of a short-story collection. In a series of vignettes that together provide a kaleidoscopic portrait, Gray... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0330319442
• ISBN13: 9780330319447
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Not Avail
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Raves for Gray's leather-and-bondage Bildungsroman

It bewilders me that such a fine piece of work should drop out of print so quickly, while so much that's mediocre or worse gains a wide audience and many reprints. This comic and satirical novel is written in a neo-picaresque chain-of-stories form, and is a fine companion to Gray's prizewinning _Poor_Things_. Gray himself credits the inimitable Kathy Acker for the inspiration to write it. You'll never look at a woman in leather in the same way again. The nominal epilogue--really an essential part of the structure--may be the funniest part.