A History Maker
A HISTORY MAKER'Fantasist, realist, parodist, postmodernist . . . Alasdair Gray has become no mean literary history maker himself.' ScotsmanThis is the memoir of Wat Dryhope, son of Ettrick Forest's Twenty-third Century Chieftain. History has ended, households are ruled by women, and war is a regulated game only played by men. But Wat the History Make is sick of the old rules and when a woman, Delilah Puddock, interfere, this utopian world is terribly endangered. Th book has been designed and illustrated by the author. 'Very entertaining indeed.' TLS'I would sit around the campfire and listen to Gray's tales any night.' The Times'A History Ma…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84195-576-6
- EAN: 9781841955766
- Produktnummer: 1327313
- Verlag: Canongate Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B13.1 cm x D1.6 cm 196 g
- Auflage: Main
- Gewicht: 196
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
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.
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