Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012 - (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

Gray is a true original, a twentieth century William Blake.-- "Observer"

A genuine experimentalist.--David Lodge

A great writer, perhaps the greatest writer living in Britain today.--Will Self

A necessary genius.--Ali Smith

One of the most gifted writers to have put pen to paper in the English language.--Irvine Welsh

About the Author

Alasdair Gray is the author of 1982, Janine; The Book of Prefaces; Old Men in Love; and Poor Things; for which he won the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. His first novel, the loosely autobiographical, blackly fantastical Lanark, changed the landscape of British fiction, opening up the imaginative territory inhabited today by writers such as A. L. Kennedy, James Kelman, and Irvine Welsh. It led Anthony Burgess to hail him as "the most important Scottish writer since Sir Walter Scott."