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Title
The man who wanted to smell books and other stories

Author
Elspeth Davie

format
Paperback / softback

Publisher
Canongate Books

Language
English

UK Publication Date
20010917

Description

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.

Born in 1919 to a Scottish father and a Canadian mother, Elspeth Dryer
spent her early years of her childhood in England. When she was nine her
parents returned to Scotland and she continued her schooling at George
Watson's Ladies' College in Edinburgh. From there she went on to study
Fine Arts, English and Philosophy at Edinburgh University before moving
to Edinburgh College of Art where she took a Diploma iin Art. After
graduating she taught painting for several years in the Borders,
Aberdeen and Northern Ireland. She married the philospher George Elder
Davie in 1944 (he was teaching at Queen's University Belfast) and a
daughter was born to them in 1946.

The family returned to
Scotland and settled in Edinburgh which provided the scene and the
material for much of Elspeth Davie's writing from then on, with her
perceptive eye for disturbing nuances of apparently banal and everyday
happenings. Davie had written short stories as a teenager but her first
book was a novel, Providing, published in 1965. Her second book was a
collection called The Spark and Other Stories (1968). Three more novels were published over the years; Creating a Scene (1971) which deals with teaching art and received a Scottish Arts Council Award. Climbers on a Stair (1978) and Coming to Light (1989).
But it was her short stories which brought her particular succes with
readers and critics alike, and her stories appeared in numerous
magazines and anthologies. She received another Scottish Arts Council
Award in 1977 and the prestigious Katherine Mansfield Prize in 197. Her
stories appeard in
The High Tide Talker and Other Stories (1976), The Night of the Funny Hats (1980), A Traveller's Room (1985) and Death of a Doctor and Other Stories (1992). Elspeth Davie died in 1995.

Type
BOOK

Edition
Main

Country of Publication
Scotland

Number of Pages
369

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