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The Book of Prefaces

The Book of Prefaces

by Alasdair Gray (Author)

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    Hardcover 2000

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Synopsis

While Alasdair Gray has chosen and edited all the prefaces and has written most of the commentary he has been assisted in this endeavour by some thirty authors who have also written commentaries. These include James Kelman, Janice Galloway, A.L. Kennedy, Bernard MacLaverty, Liz Lochhead, Roger Scruton and, indeed, Virginia Woolf. A copy of the Book of Prefaces should be found in every household and hotel bedroom. It is a unique work of literature, indeed a history of literature which will delight and amaze and inform both casual browsers and students. Its like has never been seen nor will it be seen again for at least another millennium.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 640
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 22 May 2000
ISBN 10: 0747544433
ISBN 13: 9780747544432
Book Overview: * From Beowolf to Bernard Shaw: a history of literature seen through the collected and annotated prefaces of major writers from all over the English speaking world * A work of monumental scholarship and erudition, the result of a lifetime's reading, prodigious research and years of creative labour both intellectual and artistic * Scotland's grand old man of letters presents his Magnum opus

Author Bio
Alasdair Gray has spent over sixteen years on this project although he has written a number of other books in the meantime not least, the Whitbread and Guardian prize-winning novel POOR THINGS and the story-collection, TEN TALES TALL AND TRUE.