Independence by Alasdair Gray

Independence by Alasdair Gray

Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
The feel-good place to buy books
  • Free UK delivery over £5
  • 20% off preloved books right now when you join +Plus
  • Buying preloved emits 46% less CO2 than new
  • Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!

Independence by Alasdair Gray

A polemic on the case for Scottish independence by the writer, artist, thinker and cultural icon, Alasdair Gray
A necessary genius -- ALI SMITH
One of the most gifted writers to have put pen to paper in the English language -- IRVINE WELSH
A great writer, perhaps the greatest writer living in Britain today -- WILL SELF
If Scotland chooses independence, Gray will have been one of its unacknowledged legislatorsHe writes about his culture with universal resonance * * Independent * *
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 by the Saltire Society. He died in December 2019, aged eighty-five.
SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9781782111696
ISBN 10 1782111697
Title Independence
Author Alasdair Gray
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Canongate Books
Year published 2014-06-12
Number of pages 144
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.