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Loading... Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography (2008)by Rodge Glass
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Biography & Autobiography.
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HTML: 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Rodge Glass, first tutee and then secretary to the author, takes on the role of biographer, charting Gray's life from unpublished and unrecognised son of a box-maker to septuagenarian "little grey deity" (as Will Self has called him).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. .No library descriptions found. |
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Of course it is only one man's personal views and so no doubt open to dispute. But interesting to read none the less.
Gray is a very important Scottish writer/artist and it is good to see that someone who actually knew him has written a biography. Worth reading because Gray is worth reading. ( )