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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.
Price: $17.00
Pages: 160
Publisher: Canongate Books
Imprint: Canongate Canons
Series: Canons
Publication Date:
06 April 2021
Trim Size: 7.80 X 5.08 in
ISBN: 9781838853853
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Modern & contemporary fiction, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Satire
A necessary genius
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.