Alasdair Gray, author of the modern classics Lanark, Poor Things and 1982, Janine, is without doubt Scotland's greatest living novelist. Since trying (unsuccessfully) to buy him a drink in 1998, Rodge Glass, first tutee and then secretary to the author, takes on the role of biographer, charting Gray's life from unpublished and unrecognised son of a box-maker to septuagenarian "little grey deity" (as Will Self has called him). A Jewish Mancunian Boswell to Gray's Johnson, Glass seamlessly weaves a chronological narrative of his subject's life into his own diary of meeting, getting to know and working with the artist, writer and campaigner, to create a vibrant and wonderfully textured portrait of a literary great.
| ISBN | 0747596239 | | Pages | 352 | | ISBN13 | 9780747596233
(What's this?) | | Published in | London | | Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | | Previous ISBN | 9780747590156 | | Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Publication date | 21 Sep 2009 | | Spine width (mm) | 22 | | DEWEY | 823.914 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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'A story finely told ... Glass has produced a portrait that is critically intimate to the point of being genuinely, unashamedly loving' Prospect 'Alasdair Gray is spectacularly eccentric ... [This book] will ... delight the many devotees of the Gray cult' Financial Times 'A strange and nourishing stew' Time 'Honest and revealing, tender and, very unacademically, moving' The Herald
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