Alasdair Gray : A Secretary's Biography
Glass, Rodge (2009) Alasdair Gray : A Secretary's Biography. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9780747596233
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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Rodge Glass, first tutee and then secretary to the author, takes on the role of biographer, charting Gray's life from unpublished and unrecognised son of a box-maker to septuagenarian "little grey deity" (as Will Self has called him).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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Glass, Rodge ![]() | Item type: | Book |
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ID code: | 16870 |
Keywords: | Alasdair Gray, literature, Scottish literature, biography, English literature, Literature and Literary Theory |
Subjects: | Language and Literature > English literature |
Department: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > English |
Depositing user: | Mrs Marie Henderson |
Date deposited: | 22 Mar 2010 09:47 |
Last modified: | 17 Dec 2020 03:59 |
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URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/16870 |
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