Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012 [Paperback]

The first sixteen tales in this collection were published by Canongate in 1983 with the titleUnlikely 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.GBSince 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.'An authoritative collection of Alasdair Gray's stories gathered over sixty two yearsA great writer, perhaps the greatest writer living in Britain today.A genuine experimentalist.Gray is a true original, a twentieth century William Blake.A necessary genius.One of the most gifted writers to have put pen to paper in the English language.