02558cam a2200373 4500 535645708 TxAuBib 20210918120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781408833353 1408833352 B007M82RS6 Amazon ca4967f5-fc9a-472f-9a53-6c5735342af4 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 848829 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Glass, Rodge. Alasdair Gray [Libby] : A Secretary's Biography. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. Literary. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2782kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>Alasdair Gray, author of the modern classics <i>Lanark</i>, <i>Poor Things</i> and <i>1982, Janine</i>, is without doubt Scotland's greatest living novelist. Since trying (unsuccessfully) to buy him a drink in 1998, Rodge Glass, first tutee and then secretary to the author, takes on the role of biographer, charting Gray's life from unpublished and unrecognised son of a box-maker to septuagenarian "little grey deity" (as Will Self has called him). A Jewish Mancunian Boswell to Gray's Johnson, Glass seamlessly weaves a chronological narrative of his subject's life into his own diary of meeting, getting to know and working with the artist, writer and campaigner, to create a vibrant and wonderfully textured portrait of a literary great.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-17 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1559-1/CA4/967/F5/AlasdairGray9781408833353.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=CA4967F5-FC9A-472F-9A53-6C5735342AF4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1559-1/CA4/967/F5/AlasdairGray9781408833353.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=CA4967F5-FC9A-472F-9A53-6C5735342AF4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1559-1/CA4/967/F5/AlasdairGray9781408833353.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=CA4967F5-FC9A-472F-9A53-6C5735342AF4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXBVM