Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography by Rodge Glass (Hardback) (9780747590156)

A biography of Alasdair Gray that looks at the people, events, books, paintings, plays, poems and circumstances that conspired to make him what he is.

Suiting form to subject, Rodge Glass has brought the inventive techniques of Gray's fiction to bear on the biographer's role. Mixing a chronological narrative of his subject's life (at the rate of one chapter per decade) with his own diaries of meeting, getting to know and working with the artist, writer and campaigner, narrative and diaries eventually dovetail in a riotous final chapter on the publication of Alasdair Gray's latest novel, "Old Men in Love", in October 2007.