A01=Alasdair Gray
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Gray day
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Scotland
Scottish canon
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Thatcher
Product details
- ISBN 9781838853853
- Weight: 92g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 18 Feb 2021
- Publisher: Canongate Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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It is the Swinging Sixties and Kelvin Walker has moved from Scotland to London to make his fortune. Through his wanton ambition, a megalomania surfaces that is unrelieved by his insensitive attempts at friendship and romance. Yet is he all bad, or are the true villains the establishment figures who he tricks and deceives? And, ultimately, does it matter?
Gray's twist on the follies of religion, the media and the imperial British centre is as relevant now as ever.
Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from the Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, he authored, designed and illustrated seven novels, several books of short stories, a collection of his stage, radio and TV plays and a book of his visual art, A Life in Pictures. In November 2019, he received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Saltire Society. He died in December 2019, aged eighty-five.
