Name: A Life In Pictures par Alasdair Gray
SKU: 9781847671400
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A Life In Pictures Résumé

A Life In Pictures Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray is Scotland's best known polymath. Born in 1934 in Glasgow, he graduated in design and mural art from the Glasgow School of Art in 1957. After decades of surviving by painting and writing TV and radio plays, his first novel, the loosely autobiographical, blackly fantastic Lanark, opened up new imaginative territory for such varied writers as Jonathan Coe, A.L. Kennedy, James Kelman, Janice Galloway and Irvine Welsh. It led Anthony Burgess to call him 'the most important Scottish writer since Sir Walter Scott'. His other published books include 1982 Janine, Poor Things (winner of the Whitbread Award), The Book of Prefaces, The Ends of our Tethers and Old Men in Love.

In this book, with reproductions of his murals, portraits, landscapes and illustrations, Gray tells of his failures and successes which have led his pictures to be accepted by a new generation of visual artists.

A Life In Pictures Avis

Gray is a true original, a twentieth century William Blake * * Observer * *
Surely there is no more handsome book published this year * * Guardian * *
A truly remarkable visual and literary biography . . . [from] Glasgow's resident genius * * Herald * *
Marvellous . . . a pleasure to hold and well as to read * * Times Literary Supplement * *
A detailed and wonderfully realised 'autopictography', it reveals the idiosyncratic genius of a man who has come to embody all that's good about artistic cross-pollination and creative thinking * * Big Issue * *
A necessary genius. -- Ali Smith
A master at rummaging in the dustbins of the mind. * * Daily Telegraph * *
Alasdair Gray has broken the mould again . . . A Life in Pictures, travels right to the heart of his dark, turbulent and chaotic imagination, and lights up a path through his life; it also makes the reader imagine her own life in pictures. * * Observer * *
There is the sense . . . of a warm and eccentric intelligence at work . . . The wry humour, at one of the book's sadder moments, exemplifies the winning tone of this absorbing 'autopictography', whose high production values and coffee-table heft should see it purchased for many a bibliophile come Christmas. * * Spectator * *
A great writer, perhaps the greatest writer living in Britain today. -- Will Self
As wonderful and unorthodox an autobiography from this subversive and rambunctious magnus of Scottish fiction as you would expect. * * Metro * *
A thick, gorgeous account of is life from early childhood to the present. * * The Skinny * *
Alastair Gray's life has the quality of a fairy tale. In simple terms: social toad is transformed into artistic prince, and kisses the hand of gorgeous renown. * * Times Literary Supplement * *
Just because my colleagues have already had their say on the subject, I am not going to let that stop me recommending it as a fine GBP35 worth, packed with terrific images and accompanied by his inimitable characteristic narration. -- Keith Bruce * * Herald * *
[Gray] muses on his life story with wry humour, creating a rich and colourful compendium that is utterly original. * * Good Book Guide * *
Well worth the wait, A LIfe in Pictures offers a rich and much-needed guide to the work of arguably Scotland's greatest living artist. * * Literary Review * *
A cultural gem to behold, this long overdue publication will delight both established fans and those who have just discovered the artist. * * Business Destinations * *

À propos de Alasdair Gray

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.

Informations supplémentaires

Sku

GOR004284642

ISBN 13

9781847671400

ISBN 10

1847671403

Titre

A Life In Pictures Alasdair Gray

Auteur

Alasdair Gray

État

Occasion - Très bon état

Relié

Broché

Éditeur

Canongate Books

Année de publication

20120802

Nombre de pages

312

Prix

N/A

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