
ABOUT THIS BOOK
PUBLISHER: Canongate Books
FORMAT: Hardback
ISBN: 9781841956404
RRP: £35.00
PAGES: 312
PUBLICATION DATE:
October 22, 2010
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A Life in Pictures
Alasdair Gray is known throughout the world for his writing, but he is also a highly regarded artist who not only illustrates and designs his own books, but has created many beautiful and intriguing portraits, paintings, posters and murals. Alasdair started painting and writing from an early age, and in his seventies he’s still vigorously doing both. In this autopictography he gathers together the work that has mattered most to him over the years, and weaves the story of his life through and around these pictures in his own unmistakable style. A beautifully and copiously illustrated book, designed by himself, this is life as seen by one of the millennium’s most entertaining and wry creative geniuses.
Reviews of A Life in Pictures
'Gray is a true original, a twentieth century William Blake.' Observer
Alasdair Gray
Simply one of the best and most respect authors of modern times. Be thankful he just can’t stop writing. 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.’