Of Me and Others [1952–2019]

✍ Scribed by Gray, Alasdair

• Publisher: CANONGATE Books LTD
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 710 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1786895218

✦ Synopsis

In this frank, playful and typically unorthodox collection of essays, Alasdair Gray tells of how his early life experiences influenced his writing, including the creation of those landmarks of literature, Lanark and 1982, Janine. He details the inspirations behind his many acclaimed artworks and murals, and makes clear how his moral, social and political beliefs and his work are inextricably linked.

Incisive, funny and fired with passion, Of Me and Others is as much about people, place and politics as it is about Gray's own life in art.

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Review

“[Alasdair] Gray is a true original, a twentieth century William Blake.” (―Observer)

“Unbelievably inventive. A necessary genius.” (―Ali Smith)

“The best Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott.” (―Anthony Burgess)

“Alasdair Gray is that rather rare bird among contemporary British writers―a genuine experimentalist.” (―David Lodge)

"Probably a crank, possibly a genius, certainly an original and independent voice, Alasdair Gray . . . has the look of a latter-day William Blake, with his extravagant myth-making, his strong social conscience, his liberating vision of sexuality and his flashes of righteous indignation tempered with scathing wit and sly self-mockery." (―Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times Book Review)

About the Author

Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, he has written, designed and illustrated seven novels, including Lanark and 1982, Janine, both recently re-issued by Canongate, as well as several books of short stories, a collection of his stage, radio and TV plays and a book of his visual art, A Life in Pictures. The first volume in his new translation of Dante’s Inferno is forthcoming in February 2019, also from Canongate.

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✦ Subjects

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