The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Oct 29, 2024 11:25 PM

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

Born an old man, Benjamin Button lived a very curious life, backwards

When Benjamin Button's father arrives at hospital he is surprised and ashamed to find his new baby boy is a weathered, aged man, for all appearances no younger than seventy years old. As time goes by, young Benjamin comes to no longer require a cane, his hair ceases to be grey, his limbs become less frail, his wrinkles less deep, but still the world around him fails to come to terms with his oddness, as he ages towards infancy and beyond ...

This remarkable, imaginative tale is here accompanied by a story of the desperate measures required by limitless wealth, and another about the lengths (and cuts) a girl is willing to go to for popularity.

Includes A Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Bernice Bobs Her Hair.

Reviews

Vigorous, stunningly funny...whimsical, warm, surreal, grotesque and brilliant

—— Guardian

Irvine Welsh is a terrific mimic... This collection of stories is a chorus of voices - rude, rough, discordant, filthy and often very, very funny. It's a pleasure to watch him larking about with the language... Brilliant

—— The Times

This new collection is a rambunctious return to the glory days of Trainspotting... Dazzlingly diverse... Sick and vigorous, written with Welsh's inimitable in-yer-face energy

—— Sunday Telegraph

This smutty, macabre collection exudes a compelling energy

—— Daily Mail

Scary, erotic and extremely funny

—— Literary Review

Pushkin has been cherished equally by Slavophiles and west-ern-isers, by tsars and Communists, by peasants and aristocrats

—— Financial Times

Pushkin's genius was to be, in his work, both Russian and universal; to unite beauty, strength, wit, playfulness, grace and an ability to touch the heart. He left a legacy that is a glory of world literature

—— Scotland on Sunday

Dark, funny and disturbing

—— London Review of Books

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