Glasgow: The Autobiography

Glasgow: The Autobiography
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Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Total Pages : 406
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ISBN-10 : 9780857909183
ISBN-13 : 0857909185
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Book Synopsis Glasgow: The Autobiography by : Alan Taylor

Download or read book Glasgow: The Autobiography written by Alan Taylor and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the tumult of the Industrial Revolution to the third millennium. Including extracts from an astonishing array of contributors from Daniel Defoe, Dorothy Wordsworth and Dr Johnson to Evelyn Waugh and Dirk Bogarde, it also features the writing of bred-in-thebone Glaswegians such as Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, James Kelman and 2020 Booker prize-winner Douglas Stuart. The result is a varied and vivid portrait of one of the world's great cities in all its grime and glory – a place which is at once infuriating, inspiring, raucous, humourful and never, ever dull.


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