Word Jig: New Fiction from Scotland

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Fiction. Innovative stories by Michel Faber, Margaret Elphinstone, Ali Smith, Andrew Greig, Linda Cracknell, Christopher Whyte and 20 other outstanding Scottish contemporary writers, with points of reference ranging from Scott Fitzgerald to Eminem. "In WORD JIG there's the smoke and peat of the Glens, the pungency of urban Lowlands and badlands, the sea-tang of Orkney: Scottish writing has the power to lull dreams into life, and rub salt in wounds...From hillwalking to Trainspotting, WORD JIG gathers the best of recent Scottish writing"--Chris Dolan.
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Fiction. Innovative stories by Michel Faber, Margaret Elphinstone, Ali Smith, Andrew Greig, Linda Cracknell, Christopher Whyte and 20 other outstanding Scottish contemporary writers, with points of reference ranging from Scott Fitzgerald to Eminem. "In WORD JIG there's the smoke and peat of the Glens, the pungency of urban Lowlands and badlands, the sea-tang of Orkney: Scottish writing has the power to lull dreams into life, and rub salt in wounds...From hillwalking to Trainspotting, WORD JIG gathers the best of recent Scottish writing"--Chris Dolan.

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A vivid mix of realism and fantasy (distinguished by editor Carter as "the gritty down-to-earth . . . [and work of] a profound metaphysical and fantastical bent"), in an engaging collection of prose poems, short stories, and novel excerpts by 26 young Scottish authors. The briefer pieces (most less than a page long) are generally least impressive, partial exceptions being Jen Hadfield's folklore-derived vignettes and Margaret Downie's dreamy, imaginative "The Stone" and "Death." Excerpts from longer works include Andrew Grieg's offbeat examination of the wary mutual attraction between a young engineer and a tempestuous Western Islander ("Ammonia in Orkney"); Suhayl Saadi's richly atmospheric look at immigrant South Asian street gangs ("Kings of the Dark House"); and Anne Donovan's boisterous and delightful tale of an ordinary husband and father smitten with Eastern wisdom, narrated in thick, racy Glaswegian dialect ("Buddha Da"). Nothing else in the volume equals the wry hilarity of Donovan's spirited little masterpiece, but several of the stories per se are not to be missed. Realism is well served by Edward Clapp's "Nineteen Things I Remember About the West End of Glasgow," the ruminations of a student who boards with a down-at-the-heels actress; Valerie Thornton's sympathetic portrayal of a lonely motherless girl whose "ghost pets" insulate her from boys' indifferent cruelty ("A Bird in the Hand"); and Tom Murray's dramatization of the mingled guilt, sorrow and denial felt by an adolescent ("The Boy") attending the funeral of his best (female) friend. Less conventional tales include Ali Smith's annoyingly coy explication of how fictions develop ("The Universal Story"); Michael Faber'sastute look at the generation gaps that splinter a vacationing American family ("Vanilla-Bright Like Eminem"); and, notably, Linda Henderson's contemporary fairy tale about a shepherd cursed with three "grotesque" daughters ("The Waters of Ulhava"). Despite some pronounced highs and lows, a welcome gathering that showcases an unusually energetic and entertaining new literary culture.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781931236256
  • Publisher: Hanging Loose Press
  • Publication date: 1/1/2003
  • Pages: 242

Meet the Author


MARIE CARTER is the author of the memoir The Trapeze Diaries (Hanging Loose Press). Her work has been published in the Brooklyn Rail, Bloom, Spectacle, Turntable + Bluelight, and in the anthology Best Creative Nonfiction (W.W. Norton). She serves as associate editor of Hanging Loose Press, where she has edited the anthologies Word Jig and Voices of the City. She holds an MA in English Literature from Edinburgh University.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9
Preface 15
The Universal Story 21
Meat 30
Picking Over the Bones 41
Walking Songs 46
To Loren 48
The House on Rue St. Jacques 50
Kings of the Dark House 60
Vanilla-Bright Like Eminem 78
The Stone 84
Death 85
Dali 87
Nineteen Things I Remember About the West End of Glasgow 98
The Other 107
Ammonia in Orkney 123
Castle Byke 136
Warm Rain and Plastic Roses 147
The Waters of Ulhava 151
The Hanged Man 156
Thrimilce, Glasgow 157
Shaman in Strath Ossian 158
January Soup 159
Shaman's Way with Pastry 160
Gifted 161
A Bird in the Hand 165
Cat! Cat! 173
Cup and Ring 181
Prayer 190
Foreign Soil 191
Dispossessed By Rain 192
Invisible Partners 193
The Man Called Lockerbie 201
Buddha Da 209
The Boy 223
Beneath the Coat Pile 231

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