Alasdair Gray : A Secretary's Biography

Glass, Rodge (2009) Alasdair Gray : A Secretary's Biography. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9780747596233

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Abstract

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Rodge Glass, first tutee and then secretary to the author, takes on the role of biographer, charting Gray's life from unpublished and unrecognised son of a box-maker to septuagenarian "little grey deity" (as Will Self has called him).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.

Author(s):Glass, Rodge
Item type:Book
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:08 Jan 2020 18:10
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URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/16870
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