Rob
I think Mr Gray is a three novel writer
2008/8/26 Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>:
>> I note your mention of the novels, which goes, for me, back to him
>> being better at prose poetry rather than verse,
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> _The Year of the Whale_ is optional, _Greenvoe_ is essential.
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> Amazing the number of Scots who were one-novel writers -- possibly even
> Alasdair Gray, when it really comes down to it.
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> Hogg ... George Douglas Brown ... LGG (if we count _The Scots Quair_ as a
> single novel) ...
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> Bit worrying that.
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> At least Brummies don't carry that curse.
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> R.
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