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A Goal for Miss Valentino
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| Fred Urquhart. With an Introduction by Colin Affleck |
| ISBN 9781849211116 |
| SERIES The Fred Urquhart Collection |
| Paperback 360 pages |
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| Published 17 april 2014
UK Price £13.95
US Price $18.95 |
This is the first publication of the last collection of his short stories that Fred Urquhart planned.
It displays the full range of his work: unsparing stories, tragic and comic, about ordinary people in twentieth century Scotland; historical tales in settings from Bohemia to Dundee; and unconventional ghost stories with such disparate themes as the identity of the Third Murderer in Macbeth and goings-on in Lillie Langtry's household.
As always, Urquhart the master storyteller excels in vivid dialogue and the creation of memorable characters, often placed in challenging circumstances.
And in many of these stories he uses the freedom of the late twentieth century to explore various forms of sexuality with an enhanced frankness.
Fred Urquhart (1912-1995) was born in Edinburgh. He is best known as a superb short story writer.
When he began to write it was the heyday of short story magazines, and this was the only obvious way to earn a living as an author.
Colin Affleck, the editor and a fellow native of Edinburgh, became a friend of Fred Urquhart on the writer's return to Scotland in 1991 and, later, his literary executor.
Among his writings on Urquhart is a study focussing on the short stories, which appeared in British Short-Fiction Writers,1945-1980 (edited by Dean Baldwin).
Dr Affleck is now working on a biography of Urquhart.
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