Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012

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 published together for the first time. 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.

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

Gray is a true original, a twentieth century William Blake. Observer 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 necessary genius. -- Ali Smith * A genuine experimentalist. -- David Lodge

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.'

An authoritative collection of Alasdair Gray's stories gathered over the last sixty two years. 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 published together for the first time. 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.

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