Author : Alasdair Gray
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857865625
The first sixteen tales in this collection were published by Canongate in 1983 with the title Unlikely Stories, Mostly. This collection also has fifty-seven tales from later books, plus sixteen new ones written for the hardback publication of this collection. This last section, Tales Droll and Plausible, shows that Gray's recent twenty-first-century fiction is as uncomfortably funny and up to date as his earliest.
Author : Alasdair Gray
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,43 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857865601
An authoritative collection of Alasdair Gray's stories gathered over the last twenty five years.
Author : Alasdair Gray
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564783073
One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenstein that replaces the traditional monster with Bella Baxter--a beautiful young erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of an infant. Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of Bella, but his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless's jealous love for Baxter's creation.The hilarious tale of love and scandal that ensues would be "the whole story" in the hands of a lesser author (which in fact it is, for this account is actually written by Dr. McCandless). For Gray, though, this is only half the story, after which Bella (a.k.a. Victoria McCandless) has her own say in the matter.Satirizing the classic Victorian novel, Poor Things is a hilarious political allegory and a thought-provoking duel between the desires of men and the independence of women, from one of Scotland's most accomplished authors.
Author : Alasdair Gray
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 46,53 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1841959073
This novel is 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.
Author : Alasdair Gray
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0862417376
Alasdair Gray's first book of short stories is a masterful collection that further established him as one of Scotland's most original writers. This edition marks the first appearance by Gray in the Canongate Classics list.
Author : Alasdair Gray
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Alasdair Gray
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
1982, Janine is a liberal novel of the most satisfying kind. Set over the course of one night inside the head of Jock McLeish, an aging, divorced, alcoholic, insomniac supervisor of security installations, as he tipples in the bedroom of a small Scottish hotel, it makes an unanswerable case that republicanism is a state of absolute spiritual bankruptcy. For Jock McLeish, being a Republican is something he has to cure himself of, every bit as much as his alcoholism and his Sado-Masochistic fantasizing, if he is to become a human being again. 1982, Janine explores themes of male need and inadequacy through the lonely, darkly comic, alcohol-fueled fantasies of its protagonist. An unforgettably challenging book about power and powerlessness, men and women, masters and servants, small countries and big countries, Alasdair Gray's exploration of the politics of pornography has lost none of its power to shock.
Author : Alasdair Gray
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1838855343
In this masterful retelling of one of the greatest works of world literature, Alasdair Gray - in his last work - offers an original translation in prosaic English rhyme. Lyrical and modern, this complete edition brings all three parts of Dante's epic journey through Hell and Purgatory and on to Paradise together in a single volume for the first time.
Author : Alasdair Gray
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 931 pages
File Size : 48,51 MB
Release : 2010-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1847679625
Alasdair Gray is Scotland's best known polymath. Born in 1934 in Glasgow, he graduated in design and mural art from the Glasgow School of Art in 1957. After decades of surviving by painting and writing TV and radio plays, his first novel, the loosely autobiographical, blackly fantastic Lanark, opened up new imaginative territory for such varied writers as Jonathan Coe, A.L. Kennedy, James Kelman, Janice Galloway and Irvine Welsh. It led Anthony Burgess to call him 'the most important Scottish writer since Sir Walter Scott'. His other published books include 1982 Janine, Poor Things (winner of the Whitbread Award), The Book of Prefaces, The Ends of our Tethers and Old Men in Love. In this book, with reproductions of his murals, portraits, landscapes and illustrations, Gray tells of his failures and successes which have led his pictures to be accepted by a new generation of visual artists.
Author : James Kelman
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 13,80 MB
Release : 1995
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9780099585411
