A Life In Pictures
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Canongate Books
Published:22nd Oct '10
Should be back in stock very soon
The autobiography in words and pictures of one of Britain's most fascinating and acclaimed writers and artists, Alasdair Gray
Alasdair Gray is known throughout the world for his writing, but he is also a highly regarded artist who not only illustrates and designs his own books, but has created many beautiful and intriguing portraits, paintings, posters and murals.
Alasdair started painting and writing from an early age, and in his seventies he's still vigorously doing both. In this autopictography he gathers together the work that has mattered most to him over the years, and weaves the story of his life through and around these pictures in his own unmistakable style.
A beautifully and copiously illustrated book, designed by himself, this is life as seen by one of the millennium's most entertaining and wry creative geniuses.
Gray is a true original, a twentieth century William Blake. * * Observer * *
A necessary genius. -- Ali Smith
A master at rummaging in the dustbins of the mind. * * Daily Telegraph * *
A great writer, perhaps the greatest writer living in Britain today. -- Will Self
A Life in Pictures is a truly remarkable visual and literary biography...[by]...Glasgow's resident genius. * * The Glasgow Herald * *
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 Life in Pictures is a beautifully produced hardback that does what it says on the cover . . . 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 * *
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 * *
Marvellous . . . a pleasure to hold and well as to read. * * Times Literary Supplement * *
ISBN: 9781841956404
Dimensions: 270mm x 250mm x 25mm
Weight: 1630g
312 pages
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