Nail and Other Stories ("Rebel Inc" S.)

by LauraJ.Hird (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.62

  In this collection of short stories: a ten-year-old boy uses Edinburgh buses to escape from his dysfunctional mother and her boyfriend; a retarded youth tries to join a female gang; a dead lesbian lover can't let go; and a British soldier loses the plot.

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $3.47

  Following on from Children of Albion Rovers, this is a collection of short stories which delves deeper into the power struggle between the sexes and the generations. Set against the bland backdrop of middle-class suburbia, this is a world which is darkly humorous and bleak.