Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography
Glass, Rodge (2009) Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. ISBN 0747596233
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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Rodge Glass, first tutee and then secretary to the author, takes on the role of biographer, charting Gray's life from unpublished and unrecognised son of a box-maker to septuagenarian 'little grey deity' (as Will Self has called him).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.
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Item type: Book ID code: 16834 Dates: DateEventSeptember 2009PublishedSubjects: Language and Literature > Literature (General) Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > English Depositing user: Mrs Tereza McLaughlin-Vanova Date deposited: 29 Jun 2010 11:11 Last modified: 08 Apr 2024 14:32 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/16834