Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012

by Alasdair Gray

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857865618
Publisher:	Canongate Books
Publication date:	04/02/2015
Edition description:	Main
Pages:	944
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 2.00(d)

About the Author

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.'

Editorial Reviews

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

Will Self

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

Irvine Welsh

A genuine experimentalist.

David Lodge

Gray is a true original, a twentieth century William Blake.

Observer

A necessary genius.

Ali Smith

"A great writer, perhaps the greatest writer living in Britain today."  —Will Self, author, Umbrella

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

"One of the most gifted writers to have put pen to paper in the English language." —Irvine Welsh, author

From the Publisher

Reading every short story he has ever written is consistently entertaining. This book is exhaustive, but never exhausting

Sunday Telegraph

Alasdair Gray's Every Short Story is an exhaustive anthology of a reliably unreliable storyteller

Telegraph

Gray's direct style means even the oldest piece here still feels vital; it's a treat for fans and excellent for newcomers

Metro - Anthony Cummins

Gray is a genius, a born storyteller whether at a visionary or a more down-to-earth level; even the poorest of the stories contains something intriguing or funny

Guardian - Theo Tate

A typically compendious, inspiring, infuriating gallimaufry of [Gray's] short form prose...he is indeed a National Treasure

Scotland on Sunday - Stuart Kelly