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 traces the emotional and sexual lives of four women brought together by something leather.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394589637
• ISBN13: 9780394589633
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"

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.