{"product_id":"9781408833353","title":"Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography","description":"Alasdair Gray, author of the modern classics \u003ci\u003eLanark\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoor Things\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e1982, Janine\u003c\/i\u003e, is without doubt Scotland's greatest living novelist. Since trying (unsuccessfully) to buy him a drink in 1998, Rodge Glass, first tutee and then secretary to the author, takes on the role of biographer, charting Gray's life from unpublished and unrecognised son of a box-maker to septuagenarian \"little grey deity\" (as Will Self has called him). A Jewish Mancunian Boswell to Gray's Johnson, 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.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152936419568,"sku":"9781408833353","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781408833353_p0.jpg?v=1763718999","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781408833353","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}