Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer by Alasdair Gray

Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer

Alasdair Gray

317 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

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Set in and around Glasgow and the Meditteranean in the early 1880s, this unusual novel describes the love lives of two Scottish doctors and a 25-year-old woman who has been created from human remains by one of them. Winner of the 1992 Whitbread Aw...

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