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Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012 - (Hardcover)

Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012 - (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Seventy-three short tales from Gray's earlier books are here joined with sixteen new tales."--Dust jacket.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Seventy-three short tales from Gray's earlier books are here joined with sixteen new tales Droll & Plausible, all the original illustrations with some new, and endnotes to inform every curious reader.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A genuine experimentalist.--David Lodge<br><br>A great writer, perhaps the greatest writer living in Britain today.--Will Self<br><br>A necessary genius.--Ali Smith<br><br>A typically compendious, inspiring, infuriating gallimaufry of [Gray's] short form prose...he is indeed a National Treasure--Stuart Kelly "Scotland on Sunday "<br><br>Gray is a genius, a born storyteller whether at a visionary or a more down-to-earth level; even the poorest of the stories contains something intriguing or funny--Theo Tate "Guardian "<br><br>Gray's direct style means even the oldest piece here still feels vital; it's a treat for fans and excellent for newcomers--Anthony Cummins "Metro "<br><br>One of the most gifted writers to have put pen to paper in the English language.--Irvine Welsh<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Alasdair Gray</b> is the author of <i>1982, Janine</i>; <i>The Book of Prefaces</i>; <i>Old Men in Love</i>; and <i>Poor Things</i>; for which he won the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. His first novel, the loosely autobiographical, blackly fantastical <i>Lanark</i>, changed the landscape of British fiction, opening up the imaginative territory inhabited today by writers such as A. L. Kennedy, James Kelman, and Irvine Welsh. It led Anthony Burgess to hail him as "the most important Scottish writer since Sir Walter Scott."

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