{"product_id":"9781847674975","title":"The Man Who Wanted to Smell Books: Selected Short Stories","description":"Introduced by Giles Gordon.  Elspeth Davie is one of Scotland’s finest and most underrated short-story writers. Her prose style is as clear and occasionally unnerving as that of Muriel Spark, yet her work reveals a gentler and more compassionate, but no less penetrating eye for the beauty and the strangeness of the daily human condition.  This wide-ranging collection of the very best of Elspeth Davie’s short fiction offers an important reassessment of a wonderful writer.  ‘Exceptionally powerful . . . this is a most impressive collection, a work of genuine imagination. And Mrs Davie’s measured, subtly cadenced prose is a pleasure to read.’ Observer  ‘Mrs Davie commands a beautifully clear prose style that she can intensify when necessary to touch the hem of poetry.’ Edinburgh Evening News  ‘ Shows the skill and originality of the writer in articulating and devising images for human doubts and ambiguities.’ Herald","brand":"Canongate Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183897723120,"sku":"9781847674975","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781847674975_p0.jpg?v=1769894944","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781847674975","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}