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A man finds a bald patch on the back of his head that looks curiously like a face, then discovers he's splitting in two. A bored student suggests digging a tunnel into the foundations of the art school. An elderly man is healed by hundreds of tiny people working on repairs inside his own head.
Unlikely Stories, Mostly is Alasdair Gray's first collection of short stories. Gloriously illustrated, darkly funny, and steeped in myth and fable, they capture Gray's singular imagination.
Price: $17.00
Pages: 240
Publisher: Canongate Books
Imprint: Canongate Canons
Series: Canons
Publication Date:
04 May 2021
Trim Size: 7.80 X 5.08 in
ISBN: 9781838852733
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Short stories, FICTION / General, FICTION / Literary, Modern & contemporary fiction, Myths & fairy tales
One of the brightest intellectual and creative lights Scotland has known in modern times
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.