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Gray Alasdair:     more books (100)

Old Men in Love: John Tunnock's Posthumous Papers by Alasdair Gray, 2010-06-01 Lanark (Canongate Classic) by Alasdair Gray, 2007-05-31 The Book of Prefaces 1982, Janine (Canongate Classics) by Alasdair Gray, 2003-06 A Life in Pictures by Alasdair Gray, 2011-04-01 Poor Things (British Literature Series) by Alasdair Gray, 2002-01-17 Lanark (Harvest Book) by Alasdair Gray, 1996-05-01 Lanark: A Life in Four Books (Canongate Classics) by Alasdair Gray, 2003-03 Lanark a Life In Books (Picador Books) by Alasdair Gray, 1991-08-23 Alasdair Gray by Stephen Bernstein, 1999-10 Unlikely Stories, Mostly (Canongate Classic) by Alasdair Gray, 2003-05-21 A History Maker by Alasdair Gray, 2005-04-07 Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography by Rodge Glass, 2009-09-21 The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Summer 1995): Stanley Elkin and Alasdair Gray by Mark Axelrod, 1995-12

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1. GRAY Alasdair - Playwrights And Their Plays
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2. The Book Of Prefaces -- Aladsair Gray Alasdair Gray
   by Aladsair Gray and Alasdair Gray. Bloomsbury Publishing. Due/PublishedFebruary 2000, 672 pages, cloth. ISBN 1582340374. Seminary  
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3. Lesinrocks.com : Gray Alasdair
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4. Alasdair Gray
   Alasdair Gray's Lanark is one of the great novels of our time, a surreal mural ofunsettling images and ideas vigorously coloured with anarchic humour, an epic  
   http://www.nls.uk/writestuff/heads/wee-gray.html
   
   Extractions: Lanark is one of the great novels of our time, a surreal mural of unsettling images and ideas vigorously coloured with anarchic humour, an epic fable that subverts submission to hypocritical social codes. On its publication in 1981, Scottish literature discovered a wider sense of the possible. Like all of Alasdair Gray's work, Lanark is conceived out of a vision of creative, egalitarian self-regeneration for Scotland. Alasdair Gray was born and brought up in Glasgow, where he still lives. His experiences there, as an art teacher, muralist and theatrical scene painter, provided material for the autobiographical elements in his novels. He designs his own books, from their bold dustjackets to their decorative covers, to their illustration and typography. Among his jests with publishing conventions is a spoof erratum slip 'inserted by mistake' in Unlikely Stories Mostly Poor Things (1992) won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. Alasdair Gray worked for ten years on

5. The Book Of Prefaces -- Aladsair Gray Alasdair Gray
   by Aladsair Gray and Alasdair Gray. Bloomsbury Publishing. Due/PublishedFebruary 2000, 672 pages, cloth. ISBN 1582340374. Customer  
   http://www.frontlist.com/detail/1582340374
   
   Extractions: Search for Author/Title Keyword Title Author Publisher ISBN Featured Books in All Scholarly Subjects African American Studies African Studies American Studies Anthologies Anthropology Architecture Asian Studies Books on Books Chicago Cinema studies Media Studies Classical studies Critical Theory/Marxism Cultural Studies Geography Performance Studies Science studies Drama Economics Education Environmental studies Feminist theory/Women's study Fiction Folktales French Stuff General Interest Highlights History African African American American East Asia Eastern European European Latin American Medieval Middle East Russian South asian Southeast Asian Historiography Misc. History Humor International relations Journals Just for Fun Latin American/Caribbean St. Law Linguistics Literary Studies Literary Criticism Referenc Literary MOSTLY Theory Literary NOT Theory Mathematics Medicine/Health/AIDS Native American Studies Philosophy Photography Poetry Political Science/Sociology (Post)colonial studies Psychology Reference Foreign language reference General Reference Religious studies Black Theology Buddhist studies Islamic studies Biblical studies - New Test Biblical studies Old Test.

6. Edinburgh Book Festival 2001 - Alasdair Gray
   Alasdair Gray talks at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Back. AlasdairGray in conversation Alasdair Gray is a shy almost apologetic speaker.  
   http://www.edinburghguide.com/festival/2001/book/report_alasdairgray.shtml
   
   Extractions: Alasdair Gray is a shy almost apologetic speaker. "I never wanted to write a major work" he says without any false modesty. Yet that is what his debut novel Lanark undoubtedly is. A masterpiece 25 years in the writing, it does for Glasgow what Joyce did for Dublin, and Gray's writing is more accessible. Now in his late 60s with a beard and wiry grey hair, he looks quite the part. I recommend hearing him speak to anyone who has the chance. He is self-depreciating and playfully humorous, yet never flippant. His voice jumps erratically and even squeaks when he is particularly excited - prompting him to stop and put on a deep sonorous voice for a sentence or so. He talks in tangents, mainly political. Gray is a socialist - "not so much old labour as ancient labour" - and a supporter of Scottish independence. He is proudly Scottish, but not blindly or chauvinistically so. Intelligent and generous, he comes across as a model of what a man should be.

7. Lanark: A Life In Four Books By Alasdair Gray
   September 1999 Paperback, Top. Title Lanark Author(s) gray alasdair ISBN086241914X Publisher Canongate Classics Availability WH Smith £7.99.  
   http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/books/n3/n17028.htm?authorid=6636

8. Gray Alasdair
   Monumentální román Alasdaira Graye. Alasdair Gray, Lanark, preložila BarbaraPunge Puchalská, vydalo Argo 2002, 605 stran. Kdo je vlastne Alasdair Gray?  
   http://www.iliteratura.cz/booksbrit/autori/gray/lanark.htm
   
   Extractions: Gray, A.: Nìco z kùže Monumentální román Alasdaira Graye Alasdair Gray Lanark , pøeložila Barbara Punge Puchalská, vydalo Argo 2002, 605 stran Z pomìrnì rozsáhlého a velice zajímavého díla skotského prozaika a grafika Alasdaira Graye u nás zatím vyšel pouze román Nìco z kùže , a to ve velice dobrém pøekladu tragicky zesnulého Tomáše Hrácha Nìco z kùže je kniha povedená, v mnoha ohledech brilantní, pøesto ze vzdálenìjší perspektivy nevystupuje jako nejvýznamnìjší autorova kniha. Podle mnohých je takovou knihou Lanark: Život ve ètyøech knihách (Lanark, A Life in 4 Books, 1969). Zda je to Grayova nejlepší kniha, o tom by se jistì dalo diskutovat; tak èi onak je to kniha nejrozsáhlejší, nejèastìji citovaná a podle všeho i vlivná. Na Hráchovo prùkopnické dílo teï navázala Barbora Punge Puchalská , jež právì Lanarka pøeložila pro Argo. Pøed jejím výkonem je jistì tøeba smeknout - pustit se do románového labyrintu zvícího šesti set stran, labyrintu temného, plného narážek, høíèek, reálií a dalších pøekladatelských obtížností, to jistì vyžaduje obrovskou odvahu a vytrvalost. A Puchalská se úkolu zhostila se ctí, by jedním dechem, i když snad jen pro objektivitu nutno dodat, že se nevyvarovala nìkolika drobných, spíše lexikálních chybièek - na druhé stranì, bylo by asi nepøirozené, skoro nelidské, kdyby v takto rozsáhlém a nároèném textu žádná chyba nebyla.

9. A History Maker Gray, Alasdair
   A History Maker Gray, Alasdair. Title A History Maker Subject ScienceFiction Fantasy Author gray alasdair Yehoshua, AB,de Lange, Nich  
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10. Modern First Edition Books From Firsts In Print
    25. 257. gray alasdair. Mavis Belfrage. Bloomsbury First Edition. 1996. 24.258. gray alasdair. The Book of Prefaces. Bloomsbury First Edition. 2000.  
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    Extractions: click on the first letter of the author's surname A-C D-F G-I J-L ... under £10 Find on this page GAIMAN NEIL Coraline . Bloomsbury First Edition. 2002. PROOF COPY F wraps. An 'Alice in Wonderland' story for the twenty first century. GAIMAN NEIL Coraline . Bloomsbury First Edition. 2002. SIGNED F in F dw. An excellent children's story, uncommon signed. Rapidly reprinted. GALBRAITH DOUGLAS The Rising Sun . Picador First Edition. 2000. F in F dw. Debut historical novel set in the end of the seventeenth century - rapidly reprinted. GALLOWAY JANICE Clara . Cape First Edition. 2002. SIGNED F card wrappers. The more common paperback edition but less so signed. GARDAM JANE God on the Rocks . Hamish Hamilton First Edition. 1978. Nr F in F dw. V. sl. stain mark to lower fore-edge but not encroaching onto text. An elusive Booker shortlisted title. GARDINER MEG China Lake

11. Overview Of Alasdair Gray
    Alasdair Gray 1934 . Artist, author and nationalist. Born in Glasgowand educated at Whitehill Secondary School, followed by Glasgow  
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    Extractions: Alasdair Gray Artist, author and nationalist. Born in Glasgow and educated at Whitehill Secondary School, followed by Glasgow School of Art, from which he graduated in 1957. His novels include Lanark (1981), a contemporary tale of city life, Unlikely Stories, Mostly Something Leather Poor Things Mavis Belfrage (1997) and The Book of Prefaces (2000). A shy and modest man, he became a supporter of the Scottish National Party and a respected political thinker. He was part of the 'home rule' movement following the unsuccessful referendum for a Scottish Assembly held in 1979 and collected his thoughts in his book Why Scots Should Rule Scotland

12. CONTEXT: Janice Galloway Reading Alasdair Gray
    I first encountered alasdair gray's work at a friend's house.  
    http://www.centerforbookculture.org/context/no7/galloway.html
    
    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.

13. History's Mandate: Alasdair Gray And The Art Of Independence
    alasdair gray and the Art of Independence In the wake of the General Election of 1992 James Kelman wrote a biting satire on the demand for Scottish constitutional change by parliamentary means.  
    http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/STELLA/COMET/glasgrev/issue3/maley.htm
    
    Extractions: In the wake of the General Election of 1992 James Kelman wrote a biting satire on the demand for Scottish constitutional change by parliamentary means. Entitled 'Let The Wind Blow High, Let The Wind Blow Low'. It was published as the endpiece to his collection of essays, Some Recent Attacks Kelman begins by pointing out that 75% of voters 'rejected the Tory national government' (p. 86). He goes on to remind us that 'both in Scotland and throughout the UK as a whole there are many thousands of people who have done their best to reject it for a long number of years. Some have voted and some haven't': State propaganda insists that the reason why at least 40 percent of the voting public don't vote at all is because no feelings one way or the other. They say the same thing in the U.S.A. where some 85 percent of the population are apparently 'apolitical' since they don't bother registering a vote. Rejection of the political system is inadmissible as far as the state is concerned. If you don't vote you're 'neutral', i.e. you don't 'have any politics' (p. 87). According to Kelman: 'A vote for any party or individual is always a vote for the political system ... If there was any possibility that the apparatus could effect a change in the system then they would dismantle it immediately'. (p. 87). In other words, don't vote, you'll only encourage them. If elections promised change they'd be abolished. Familiar stuff. But Kelman extends the argument:

14. Alasdair Gray At The Complete Review
    Biographical information, critical quotations, links and reviews of the author's works.Category Arts Literature Authors G gray, alasdairalasdair gray at the Complete Review information about alasdair gray and linksto reviews of alasdair gray's books. alasdair gray at the complete review  
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    Extractions: Return to top of page. Bibliography Highlighted titles are under review at the complete review Lanark: A Life in Four Books - novel, 1981 Unlikely Stories, Mostly - stories, 1983 1982 Janine - novel, 1984 The Fall of Kelvin Walker - novel, 1985 Lean Tales - stories, 1985 (with James Kelman and Agnes Owen) Alasdair Gray - Saltire Self-Portrait 4 - autobiographical, 1988 Old Negatives - poetry, 1989 McGrotty and Ludmilla - novel, 1989 Something Leather - novel, 1990

15. Dalkey Archive Press: An Interview With Alasdair Gray
    Interview with the author by Mark Axelrod, discussing a number of his works.  
    http://www.centerforbookculture.org/interviews/interview_gray.html
    
    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

16. Glasgow: Pat's Guide To The West End: Alasdair Gray, Writer And Artist
    Profile of the author and brief account of a meeting with him.  
    http://www.glasgowwestend.co.uk/people/alasdair.html
    
    Extractions: @import "/listapartstyle.css"; The site-wide navigation is near the bottom of the page . This page is accessible in all browsers, but the design will look different in a graphical browser that supports Web standards. postcards classified ads pinboard flathunting ... e-shop 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.

17. Alasdair Gray - Ed. Phil Moores
    A review, and links to other information about and reviews of alasdair GrayCritical Appreciations And A Bibliography edited by Phil Moores.  
    http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/graya/pmagray.htm

18. Un Hacedor De Historia
    Rese±a de la obra mentada, cuyo autor es alasdair gray.  
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19. Alasdair Gray
    An epilogue placed well before the end takes the form of a dispute between Lanarkand a character not named alasdair gray - who says he is the author of the  
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    Extractions: John Crowley, The New York Times, May 5 1985 ...It is probably safe to say that ''Lanark'' is not very much like any other Scottish novel, but it does have antecedents in literature - in Bunyan, in Blake, in Dante. ''Lanark'' received little attention in America... Now his first novel reappears in a full-dress hard-cover treatment with illustrations by the author. His drawings are... remarkably similar in their effect to his prose. ''Lanark,'' subtitled ''A Life in 4 Books,'' begins with Book Three... In a rainy, gray, depopulated city called Unthank, something has gone wrong with the sun; it comes up, but never very far... An amnesiac young man... has chosen the name Lanark - which he saw printed under a photograph of a landscape - because he does not remember his own. He spends time in a cinema cafe among aimless young people without jobs or families. Around him, people disappear, sucked into the sky or the ground without warning. Others suffer from strange diseases... Lanark has contracted dragonhide - a patch of hard, insensate skin on his arm is spreading. A woman he meets has a worse problem: she opens her palm and shows him the speaking mouth that has appeared there... At length, Lanark too disappears from Unthank, climbing into an enormous summoning mouth that appears before him, and the story takes the first of several very sharp turns. Lanark awakens in [an] ''institute''... that seems to exist outside time and space. His dragonhide is cured... he is expected to join [the] doctors and cure others... The various diseases of Unthank are equivalents of psychic and moral ailments - dragonhide is an inability to love - and the reader also apprehends, with something of a sinking heart, that he himself has arrived in what is almost certainly an allegory.

20. BloomsburyMagazine.com - Bloomsbury Author Information - Alasdair Visit The Bloo
    alasdair gray at the Complete Review An overview of the life and works of alasdair gray, with links to reviews and  
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