The Ends of Our Tethers: 13 Sorry Stories (Signed First Edition)

Gray, Alasdair

ISBN 10: 1841954403 / ISBN 13: 9781841954400

Published by Canongate, Edinburgh, 2003

About this Item

Edinburgh: Canongate, 2003. First edition (with full number line including the 1). Hardcover. Full blue decorated cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price of 10 pounds on front jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 184 pages, with black-and-white illustrations by the author throughout. Signed by Alasdair Gray on the half-title page (name only). A collection of thirteen darkly comic stories. Gray was the Scottish author of nine novels, including Lanark (1981); 1982, Janine (1984); The Fall of Kelvin Walker (1985); Something Leather (1990); McGrotty and Ludmilla (1990); Poor Things (1992); A History Maker (1994); Mavis Belfrage (1996); and Old Men in Love (2007). This collection of stories appears late in his career.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ends of Our Tethers: 13 Sorry Stories (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Canongate, Edinburgh
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841954403
• ISBN 13: 9781841954400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Scottish Literature

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Synopsis

The Ends of Our Tethers is vintage Gray - experimental, mischievous, wide-ranging but also subtly connected. And as always the work is hall-marked with his engaging prose style, dry wit and fecund imagination.

About the Author

ALSADAIR GRAY was born in Glasgow in 1934 and studied at Glasgow School of Art. His first novel, Lanark, was published by Canongate to critical acclaim. Widely recognised as a major modern novelist Gray's fiction has been translated into more than a dozen languages throughout the world.