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The Book of Prefaces by Aladsair gray and alasdair gray Bloomsbury Publishing ,cloth , 672 pages. by alasdair gray Bloomsbury Publishing , cloth , 640 pages.
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GRAY, Alasdair., 1982 Janine.
Glasgow Hotel. Simon Finch Rare Books. gray, alasdair. 1982 Janine.London Jonathan Cape, 1984. 8vo, pp. 2 blank, (347), 3 blank.
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Extractions: Simon Finch Rare Books GRAY, Alasdair. 1982 Janine. London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. 8vo, pp. [2] blank, (347), [3] blank. Original black decorative cloth, spine and sides richly illustrated and lettered in gilt, after Gray's design, red endpapers. Original white pictorial dust-jacket, printed in red and black, publisher's price sticker to front flap. Author's inscription in black ball-point to title-page. A fine copym in a fine dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: '[below printed dedication on title-page] and Neil Taylor from Alasdair'. A fine copy of Gray's second novel, and third book, a masterful combination of the sexual fantasies and Conservative Party rhetoric swirling inside the head of a depressed, alcoholic security consultant trapped in a Glasgow Hotel. This item is listed on Bibliopoly by Simon Finch Rare Books ; click here for further details.
Green Apple Books: 1982 Janine By Gray, Alasdair
Hardcover without DustJacket Publisher Viking Penguin Year Published 1984 Book Condition VG. Title 1982 Janine Author gray, alasdair
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Lanark A Life in Four Books by gray, alasdair Released 11/2002. PoorThings 2002. A History Maker by gray, alasdair Released 05/1996. Ten
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Lanark A Life in Four Books by gray, alasdair Released 11/2002. PoorThings 2002. A History Maker by gray, alasdair Released 05/1996. 1982
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Gray, Alasdair James, B 1934, Author And Artist
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1. Lanark A Life in 4 Books by alasdair gray. Someone named alasdair gray has founda memoir supposedly of a 19thcentury public health officer in Glasgow.
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Extractions: This book blew my mind. Complex, challenging, but with a whole lot to say about the pain of growing up. It taught me a lot about modern Scotland (lifestyle, attitude), and I figure Gray's fragmented fantasy style must have been a big influence on younger better known Scottish writers (to me anyway)... Read more The full title of this work, Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D. Scottish Public Health Officer , reflect a bit of wacky genius at work here. Someone named Alasdair Gray has found a memoir supposedly of a 19th-century public health officer in Glasgow. The truth of... Read more Unlikely Stories, Mostly (Canongate Classics, 81)
Dalkey Archive Press: An Interview With Alasdair Gray
Interview with the author by Mark Axelrod, discussing a number of his works.Category Arts Literature Authors G gray, alasdairAn Epistolary Interview, Mostly with alasdair gray By Mark Axelrod. Is this kindof obstreperousness a genetic perturbation of alasdair gray? If so, why?
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Extractions: MARK AXELROD: You are most widely known for the richly imaginative and what Robert Crawford called "labyrinthine" novel Lanark: A Life in Four Books , a novel that is as stunning in its narrative as it is bizarre in character and setting. For those who have read the book but were a wee bit confused by the setting in book 3, was it meant to be an apocalyptic vision of Glasgow or of a general gloomy setting? ALASDAIR GRAY: I meant to write an exciting story about the world I was in, of which Glasgow was the biggest and nearest part. The gloomy and apocalyptic elements came easily to me because when four years old, I had sat with my mother and father and heard Neville Chamberlain, the prime minister, announce that Britain was at war with Germany. From then on, for five years, street lighting was not used in Britain and when the siren was heard we all stopped what we did and went to air-raid shelters, sometimes getting up in the middle of the night to do it, sometimes stopping our lessons in the classroom. I enjoyed the excitement. Then one day we went to schoolmy sister and I, with our motherand buses came to the school and took us out to bits of Scotland I would otherwise not have known. We were evacuated , first to a farm in Perthshire, then to a flat above a tailor's shop in a small mining town. Then my father (who had been a private, then a quartermaster sergeant in the 1914-1918 war and had worked a box-making machine in a factory between the wars) got work as a manager of a hostel for munitions workers created by the government in the Yorkshire market town of Weatherby. In the course of these flittings I sometimes had nightmares and bad asthma attacks, though my mother ensured I was safe, and the British government, by introducing strict food rationing, ensured that the generation of working-class children who grew up during the war were healthier than those of any preceding generation. As Kurt Vonnegut puts itImagine that! So my tendency to think the world catastrophic or apocalyptic came from the experience of it. But I did not think it a hopeless place, and the world of
CONTEXT: Janice Galloway Reading Alasdair Gray
Galloway's account of her introduction and response to the writer's works.Category Arts Literature Authors G gray, alasdair Reading alasdair gray Janice Galloway I first encountered alasdair gray'swork at a friend's house. It was the middle of a notgood time for me.
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Extractions: Lanark I first encountered Alasdair Gray's work at a friend's house. It was the middle of a not-good time for me. Suffering from a tenacious depression that made most attempts at talking, getting out of bed, everything really, seem nothing more than variations on a theme of wasting time, I nonetheless persisted with reading because (1) it reminded me there had been things I enjoyed previously and (2) I hoped reading might, sooner or later, turn up something that might help. I wasn't sure how it was going to do this exactly but the hope lingered nonetheless. Off and on, without enthusiasm, I visited people. On one such visit, I fell over Lanark.
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alasdair gray. Born in Glasgow in 1934, alasdair gray studied drawingand painting at Glasgow School of Art. He produced portraits
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Glasgow: Pat's Guide To The West End: Alasdair Gray, Writer And Artist
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Extractions: Home You can find a top level index and a section index at the bottom of each page Local Characters: Alasdair Gray, Writer and Artist Alasdair Gray has an impressive record or achievement in the world of literature. Since the arrival of his first novel 'Lanark' in 1981 he has been recognised as an important and accomplished writer by the literary world and has continued to produce highly acclaimed works. In 1992 'Poor Things' received both the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Whitbread Prize and, the long awaited, 'The Book of Prefaces' looks set to be a classic. 'it is a book that should be on the shelf of anyone interested in English literature, language and history'. (The Complete Review) Personally, I am particularly impressed by the fact that the erudite Philip Hobsbaum, the English lecturer, who struck awe into me as a first year student at Glasgow University, is a big fan of Gray and very appreciative of his talents. Paul Currie, John Smith's Bookshops, whom I mention often on the Web site, is Alasdair's walking buddy and he suggested Alasdair as a prime candidate for inclusion in our West End Characters Section. (Paul's face can be seen in the book 'Poor Things' - he was Alasdair's model for McCandless). Before meeting Alasdair formally to talk about creating this page I had often seen out and about in the West End accompanied by his partner Morag McAlpine. I'd spotted him often in the Chip - infamous haunt of Glasgow writers, actors, university lecturers and the like. More often than not he was besplattered in paint and looking very much like your archetypal absent minded professor - though maybe more artist than academic.
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BrowseBestsellers 1 5 1. Lanark A Life in 4 Books by alasdair gray. HarvestBooks Paperback (May 1996), Read more. 2. A History Maker by alasdair gray.
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Extractions: This book blew my mind. Complex, challenging, but with a whole lot to say about the pain of growing up. It taught me a lot about modern Scotland (lifestyle, attitude), and I figure Gray's fragmented fantasy style must have been a big influence on younger better known Scottish writers (to me anyway)... Read more In the 23rd century, the Public Eye, a television-like device that lets everyone see what everyone else is doing, has turned warfare into a spectator sport. One of particular interest involves the Scottish border regions' fight with the English. Wat Dryhope, leader of the Ettrick clan, pretends to... Read more Lanark : A Life in Four Books
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Interview with alasdair gray. I have never wanted to confuse readers. alasdairgray Ive loved Blakes work from the age of 13 or 14.
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Extractions: Anthony Burgess Interview with Alasdair Gray I have never wanted to confuse readers LIDIA VIANU: You write as you paint, forcefully. Your imagination compels your readers to forget everything and inhabit your world, unwilling to leave it when the novel is over. Do you feel any kinship with William Blake in the way you associate your gift with the desire of unlimited power over other minds? One of your heroes (Duncan Thaw) actually states he wants this. ALASDAIR GRAY: Ive loved Blakes work from the age of 13 or 14. I do not want unlimited power over other minds. I want the limited power of entertaining the. I would not if I could force people to read my books in schools or universities. That would make too many bright students hate them. Thaw was an unhappy adolescent, so liable to fascist fantasies. LV. Your first novel, Lanark (1981), turns the nightmare into overwhelming joy of life, dystopia into the most desirable of worlds. Was it your intention to shock or to charm? Fact is that you succeed both ways, which is really rare. AG. A long story cannot hold a reader if it lacks surprising developments. Shakespeare, Dickens and Dostoevski keep providing them. Raymond Chandler advised crime writers, if their plot had become predictable, to have a stranger with a gun burst in through a door. Of course if the surprise is too disgusting for most readers theyll stop reading. When writing the pornographic parts of
Alasdair Gray : An Icon Of The Creative Universe - A Master Of Science Fiction A
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Extractions: Success: 1981 - Present Alasdair James Gray was born in Riddrie, east Glasgow, on 28 December 1934. His father, Alexander Gray, worked in a cardboard box cutting factory (after being wounded by shrapnel in the belly during WW1), his mother, Amy Fleming, worked in a clothes shop. His parents met while on a rambling outing organised by the Holiday Fellowship and had married in 1931. Alasdair's sister, Mora Jean, was born in 1937. He attended Riddrie primary school until the start of WW2. In 1940, Alasdair, Mora and their mother were evacuated from the city of Glasgow. Their first new residence was on a farm in Perthshire, where Alasdair's eczema and asthma became a problem - this stay is recounted in book 1 of Lanark - then they moved to the town of Stonehouse in Lanarkshire - an experience used for Jock's childhood in 1982, Janine
Will Self: Introduction To Alasdair Gray: Critical Appreciations
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Extractions: © The British Library 2002 A letter arrives from Phil Moores whose address is listed as follows: British Library, Customer Services, Document Supply Centre, Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire. He encloses a selection of essays about the work of the Scottish novelist, artist, poet and politico- philosophic eminence grise, Alasdair Gray. You are holding this book in your hand so you know what those essays are, but picture to yourself (and let it be a Gray illustration, all firm, flowing pen-and-ink lines, precise adumbration, colour - if at all - in smooth, monochrome blocks), my own investigation of these enclosures. Detail 1: I sit, islanded in light from a globular steel reading lamp of fifties vintage. Around me on the purple-black floorboards are sheaves of paper, my brow is furrowed, my chin is tripled, my fingers play achord upon my cheek.

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