Review
'A story finely told ... Glass has produced a portrait that is critically intimate to the point of being genuinely, unashamedly loving' Prospect 'Alasdair Gray is spectacularly eccentric ... [This book] will ... delight the many devotees of the Gray cult' Financial Times 'A strange and nourishing stew' Time 'Honest and revealing, tender and, very unacademically, moving' The Herald
Book Description
Since trying (unsuccessfully) to buy Alasdair Gray a drink in 1998, Rodge Glass, first tutee and then secretary to Scotland's greatest living novelist, takes on the role of biographer, charting Gray's life to septuagenarian "little grey deity" (as Will Self has called him). Glass seamlessly weaves a chronological narrative of his subject's life into his own diary of meeting, getting to know and working with the artist, writer and campaigner, to create a vibrant and wonderfully textured portrait of a literary great.
