Alasdair Gray

(born December 1934 - ) – Riddrie, Glasgow

Alasdair Gray

Trained as a painter at the Glasgow School of Art, Alasdair Gray has been an art-teacher, a muralist, theatrical scene painter, and more recently a playwright, novelist and illustrator. His first novel, Lanark: A Life in Four Books, was published in 1981 and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. He illustrates his own books and these images, along with a creative use of typography, give a strong sense of his unique style.

Gray is now Professor of Creative Writing and Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities, a position he shares with Tom Leonard and James Kelman.

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    1982, Janine - Paperback
    A book about power and powerlessness, men and women, masters and servants, small countries and big countries and an exploration of the politics of pornography. A portrait of male need and inadequacy as explored via the lonely sexual fantasies of Jock McLeish, failed husband, lover and businessman.
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    The Ends Of Our Tethers: 13 Sorry Stories - Paperback
    This is a collection of thirteen tales from critically acclaimed author, Alasdair Gray, which challenge prejudice, question social imbalance and explore human foibles.
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    Fleck - Paperback
    'Fleck' is a verse comedy by Alasdair Gray.
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    A Gray Play Book: Of Long And Short Plays For Stage ... And Excerpts From The Pictorial Storyboard Of The Novel Lanark - Paperback
    This collection brings together some of Alasdair Gray's best plays, including the unabridged scripts of four of his most famous dramas: 'The Fall of Kelvin Walker', 'Mavis Belfridge', 'McGrotty and Ludmilla' and 'Working Legs'.
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    A History Maker - Paperback
    Set in the Ettrick Forest in the 23rd century, this is a tale of Border warfare. It tell of Wat Dryhope, son of the Ettrick chief, who is unhappy about his clan's violent and permissive lifestyle.
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    A Life In Pictures - Hardback
    Alasdair Gray is known throughout Europe and beyond for his writing, but he is also a highly regarded artist who is responsible for many murals, portraits, paintings and posters. In this autobiography he gathers together the paintings that have mattered most to him over the years, and weaves the story of his life through them.
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    Old Men In Love: John Tunnock's Posthumous Papers - Hardback
    'Old Men in Love' constitutes the posthumous papers of a recondite - yet venal - retired Glaswegian schoolmaster, named John Tunnock.
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    Old Negatives: Four Verse Sequences - Paperback
    The verses in 'Old Negatives' deal with the same things, omitting politics. They have been written at different times since 1952 and are arranged chronologically to suggest growth. They are negative becuase they describe love mainly by its absences and reverses.
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    Poor Things: Episodes From The Early Life Of Archibald McCandless M.D. Scottish Public Health Officer - Paperback
    What strange secret made rich, beautiful, tempestuous Bella Baxter irresistible to the poor Scottish medical student Archie McCandless? Was it her mysterious origin in the home of his monstrous friend Godwin Baxter, the genius whose voice could perforate eardrums?

Bibliography

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    Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography - Hardback - Rodge Glass
    Glass plays Boswell to Gray's Johnson in this humorous yet rigorous biography. Glass has used the inventive techniques of Gray's fiction to bear, mixing a chronological narrative of his subject's life with his own diaries of meeting, getting to know and working with the celebrated artist, writer and campaigner.
Last modified Wednesday 15 April 2009
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