Hot air balloons soar above the Mediterranean.
Aerial streetcars fly along ropes suspended above the alleys of a candy-colored Lisbon.
Pastel green smoke billows into the night sky from the funnels of a cruise ship.
And it may not even be his most eccentric book.
A prolific writer and visual artist who died at 85 in 2019, Gray wrote five other novels, two novellas, 89 short stories and a version of Dante’s Divine Comedy (“Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse”).
Persons:
Bella Baxter, Emma Stone, Yorgos Lanthimos’s Oscar, ” Bella, Alasdair Gray, Gray
Locations:
Lisbon