The Diary of Archie the Alpaca
Published on 12. October 2017
112 pages
978-0-85790-981-7 (ISBN)
Description
If you haven't yet met Archie the Alpaca now's your chance.
Prolific writer, social observer, grassiccino drinker, occasional dancer and loyal friend, Archie sees the world like no-one else. Gathered here are his thoughts, feelings, loves, hates and everything in between.
From his remarks on the volume of phone conversations to friendship with cats, tributes to great art and artists, and the joy of being Salvador Dali, his diary will teach you to think about everything you know just a little bit differently.
Prolific writer, social observer, grassiccino drinker, occasional dancer and loyal friend, Archie sees the world like no-one else. Gathered here are his thoughts, feelings, loves, hates and everything in between.
From his remarks on the volume of phone conversations to friendship with cats, tributes to great art and artists, and the joy of being Salvador Dali, his diary will teach you to think about everything you know just a little bit differently.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Birlinn General
Illustrations
Line drawings, black and white
File size
5,70 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-85790-981-7 (9780857909817)
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Kevin MacNeil
The Diary of Archie the Alpaca
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10/2017
Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
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Persons
Kevin MacNeil is an award-winning writer from the Outer Hebrides. He is a novelist, poet, editor and screenwriter, and currently teaches creative writing at the University of Stirling. He is the author of The Brilliant and Forever (Polygon, 2016).
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Last Day of the Previous Year
- After my Cat Ate a Tin of Mackerel and Chicken Breast Cat Food
- Sitting in the Nighintgale with Toothache Cafe
- And so a Yellow Painting Got me Thinking
- My New Novel
- What I Learned from my Friendâ?Ts Talking Tortoise:
- At a Buddhist Protest:
- Mobile Phones in Public Places
- Once, in Galway City
- Sleep
- Colin the Cockroach
- Sad Classified AD
- Bank Teller, 3.30 P.M., Wednesday:
- As If
- The Ascent of Western Civilisation
- Ejected from London, this Alpaca Hopped a Train to Caithness:
- Every Winter, Perhaps Forever
- Good Tidings
- Acknowledgements:
