Independence: Why Scots Should Rule Scotland - Softcover

Gray, Alasdair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0862413915 ISBN 13: 9780862413910

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd, 1992

Synopsis

Alsadair Gray wrote the first edition of this book for the 1992 general election. In it he showed the poor state of present-day Scotland; gave a concise, elegant history of the Scottish people and their relations with the rulers of England; argued that Scotland should have a strong government elected by its own people. Five years later Scotland still does not have that and its state has worsened.The original chapters have been revised and largely rewritten. New chapters dealing with Scottish education, land owning, and law and the Labour Party bring the argument to date.This is a more openly political book than the first edition, written to persuade people who feel their vote does not much influence how their country is managed that Scottish independence matters, and that only one political party is honestly working to achieve it.

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About the Author

Alasdair Gray is the author of 1982, Janine; The Book of Prefaces;  Old Men in Love; and  Poor Things; for which he won the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. His first novel, the loosely autobiographical, blackly fantastical Lanark, changed the landscape of British fiction, opening up the imaginative territory inhabited today by writers such as A. L. Kennedy, James Kelman, and Irvine Welsh. It led Anthony Burgess to hail him as "the most important Scottish writer since Sir Walter Scott."

Edition details

• Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0862413915
• ISBN 13: 9780862413910
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64