Крейг Фергусон

This is a bawdy and joyous novel. It's a throwback to the British novels of two decades ago - messy and offends everyone (over-the-top language and insults about race, sex, body parts, nationality, and religion). It's the story of two childhood friends from Scotland and two brothers from the American South whose lives intersect in the most absurd ways, with the result being the invention...

In Riding the Elephant, Craig regales readers with new essays, rendered in the voice fans have come to love. In lyrical prose that is at once hilarious and unexpectedly moving, he discusses his deep love for his native Glasgow, the psychological changes of fatherhood, and looks at aging and mortality with a perspective that he was incapable of as a younger man. Each story is strung together in a c...