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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Alasdair GrayPublisher: Canongate Books Imprint: Canongate Books Edition: Main Dimensions: Width: 13.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 19.70cm Weight: 0.170kg ISBN: 9781841955766ISBN 10: 1841955760 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 07 April 2005 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews* As ripping yarns masquerading as political/social metaphors go, A History Maker is in a field of its own. GQ * Fantasist, Realist, Parodist, Postmodernist - in just over a decade Alasdair Gray has become no mean literary history maker himself. Scotsman * A History Maker sees Gray at his most playful. The reference points are all over the place, just waiting to be unpicked and savoured - from Scott to Orwell to 70s sci-fi classic Rollerball. Gray drags them all together to form a clever, form-bending and brilliant read. Big Issue * A satire on Utopian fictions ... Gray's Scottish border fantasy jokes at its own expense all the better to examine the inherent flaws in a future that might work ... very entertaining indeed. -- Liz Heron Times Educational Supplement Author InformationBorn 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 by the Saltire Society. He died in December 2019, aged eighty-five. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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