Greyhound for Breakfast

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 230. Grey cloth boards, lettered in black to spine. Jacket design by Peter Dyer (priced at £10.95 net to front flap).

Signed by Author to title page. Slight crease to crown of d/w spine, else Fine.

Winner of the 1987 Cheltenham Prize for Literature. Spanning 1972 through 1988, forty-seven short stories related in a funny, sour vernacular and set in the streets, pubs and tenements of Glasgow, Manchester, and London. Some of these stories were originally published in Cencrastus, Eboracum, Edinburgh Review, Filter, The Glasgow Review, Identities, New Statesman, Not Poetry, Scottish Short Stories, Some Say, Writers-in-brief, and TriQuarterly (a publication of Northwestern University). By the 1994 Booker Prize-winner for How Late It Was, How Late, which set off a storm of controversy, due to its 'raw' language. "'Cute Chick' [is] the funniest short story in the British language." –Alisdair Gray