Unlikely Stories, Mostly

The first short story collection from the irreplaceable Alasdair Gray, sublimely decorated throughout

About the author

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.

Summary

A man finds a bald patch on the back of his head that looks curiously like a face, then discovers he's splitting in two. A bored student suggests digging a tunnel into the foundations of the art school. An elderly man is healed by hundreds of tiny people working on repairs inside his own head.

Unlikely Stories, Mostly is Alasdair Gray's first collection of short stories. Gloriously illustrated, darkly funny, and steeped in myth and fable, they capture Gray's singular imagination.

Product details

• Authors: Alasdair Gray
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 18.02.2021
• EAN: 9781838852733
• ISBN: 978-1-83885-273-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Canons
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales