Poor Things

Name: Poor Things
Author: Alasdair Gray

1992 novel by Alasdair Gray

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Author: Alasdair Gray
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Released: 1992
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Publisher: Bloomsbury
Language: English

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Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer is a novel by Scottish writer Alasdair Gray, published in 1992. It won the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize the same year.

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Country of origin: Scotland
Form of creative work: novel
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2026-05-22
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Title: Poor Things
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