Abstract
Recommends Sutherland's "epiphanic" short novel, which received rave reviews on publication, as a novel that should have been "an almost mandatory selection" for the BBC poll ballot, suggesting that it was excluded, not only because of length, explicit language, and violence, but because its island setting and depiction of "the fuzzy margins of sexual and racial identity" made it wrongly seem peripheral to the Scottish "mainland and mainstream."
Recommended Citation
Malzahn, Manfred
(2017)
"Writing on the Margins: Luke Sutherland, Venus as a Boy (2004),"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 43:
Iss.
2, 212–213.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol43/iss2/19