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The first sixteen tales in this collection were published by Canongate in 1983 with the title Unlikely Stories, Mostly. This collection also has fifty-seven tales from later books, plus sixteen new ones written for the hardback publication of this collection. This last section, Tales Droll and Plausible, shows that Gray's recent twenty-first-century fiction is as uncomfortably funny and up to date as his earliest.
Price: $35.00
Pages: 944
Publisher: Canongate Books
Imprint: Canongate Books
Publication Date:
02 April 2015
Trim Size: 8.43 X 5.31 in
ISBN: 9780857865618
Format: Paperback
A great writer, perhaps the greatest writer living in Britain today.
Since 1981, when Alasdair Gray's first novel (Lanark: A Life in Four Books) was published by Canongate, he has published twenty books, most of them novels and short stories. In his own words, 'Alasdair Gray is a fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glaswegian pedestrian who has mainly lived by writing and designing books, most of them fiction.'