While Alasdair Gray has chosen and edited all the prefaces and has written most of the commentary in this book, he was assisted in this by some 30 authors who have also written commentaries. These include James Kelman, Janice Galloway, A.L. Kennedy, Roger Scruton and Virginia Woolf. The selections start from the 7th century and go on until the early 20th. Also included are Gray's own comments on the notes of the other commentators.
While Alasdair Gray has chosen and edited all the prefaces and has written most of the commentary in this book, he was assisted in this by some 30 aut...
A collection of stories that describe painful kinds of education, the title story describing how an uninhibited woman educates a prim Scottish lecturer.
A collection of stories that describe painful kinds of education, the title story describing how an uninhibited woman educates a prim Scottish lecture...
Since 1981, when Alasdair Gray's first novel Lanark was published by Canongate, his characters have aged as fast as their author. The Ends of Our Tethers shows the high jinks of many folk in the last stages of physical, moral and social decrepitude - a sure tonic for the young. The first work of fiction in over six years by one of Britain's most original and brilliant writers, this wonderful (and very funny) new collection reaffirms Gray's position as a master of the short story. The Ends of Our Tethers is vintage Gray - experimental, mischievous, wide-ranging...
Since 1981, when Alasdair Gray's first novel Lanark was published by Canongate, his characters have aged as fast as their author. The End...
A tale of border warfare, military and erotic, set in the twenty-third century, where the women rule the kingdom and the men play war games.
This is the fictional memoir of Wat Dryhope - edited, annotated and commented upon. History has come to an end, war is regulated as if it's all a game. But Wat, the History Maker himself, does not play entirely by the rules, and when a woman, Delilah Puddock, joins the fray, this 'utopian' history is further enlivened.
Alasdair Gray cleverly plays with the notion and writing of history, as well as perennial modern debates on war, sexism...
A tale of border warfare, military and erotic, set in the twenty-third century, where the women rule the kingdom and the men play war games.
Now in paperback, an authoritative collection of Alasdair Gray's stories gathered over the last 25 years, with illustrations and information to amuse the curious reader
The first 16 stories in this collection were published in 1983 with the title Unlikely Stories, Mostly. The Washington Post called it "a wonder of ingenuity, a varied and rich collection in which Gray's abilities as a visual artist and illustrator are placed not only beside but within the products of his fertile imagination as a writer." The Bookseller said "Gray's is an extravagant...
Now in paperback, an authoritative collection of Alasdair Gray's stories gathered over the last 25 years, with illustrations and information to ...
'Probably the greatest novel of the century' Observer
'Remarkable . . . A work of loving and vivid imagination, yielding copious riches' WILLIAM BOYD
Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide range, its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love, and yet our compulsion to go on trying.
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'Probably the greatest novel of the century' Observer
'Remarkable . . . A work of loving and vivid imagination...
