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Every Short Story By Alasdair Gray 1952 2012Stock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionSixty four short tales from Gray's earlier books are here joined with ten new stories, with illustrations and information to amuse curious readers. Promotion infoAn authoritative collection of Alasdair Gray's stories gathered over the last twenty five years Reviews* Gray is a true original, a twentieth century William Blake. Observer * A great writer, perhaps the greatest writer living in Britain today. -- Will Self * One of the most gifted writers to have put pen to paper in the English language. -- Irvine Welsh * A necessary genius. -- Ali Smith * A genuine experimentalist. -- David Lodge Author descriptionSince 1981, when Alasdair Gray's first novel (Lanark: A Life in Four Books) was published by Canongate, he has published twenty books, most of them novels and short stories. In his own words, 'Alasdair Gray is a fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glaswegian pedestrian who has mainly lived by writing and designing books, most of them fiction.' |