This article is about the novel. For its film adaptation, see Poor Things (film).
1992 novel by Alasdair Gray
Poor Things
First edition
Author
Alasdair Gray
Cover artist
Alasdair Gray
Country
Scotland
Language
English
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Publication date
1992
Media type
Print (hardback and paperback)
Preceded by
McGrotty and Ludmilla
Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer is a novel by Scottish writer Alasdair Gray, published in 1992. It won the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize the same year.[1][2]
The novel was called "a magnificently brisk, funny, dirty, brainy book" by the London Review of Books. It is a departure from Gray's usual subject-matter of Glasgow realism and fantasy. However, its Victorian narrative takes in Gray's previous concerns with social inequalities, relationships, memory and identity.[3]
^"Poor Things". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on 19 June 2021.
^"The Guardian Fiction Prize". The Guardian. 27 November 1992. p. 56. Retrieved 29 October 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^Coe, Jonathan (8 October 1992). "Gray's Elegy". London Review of Books. Vol. 14, no. 19. ISSN 0260-9592. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
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