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Glasgow The Autobiography

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781780278032
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Imprint: Birlinn
Pub date:
DEWEY: 941.44
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 276g
Height: 196mm
Width: 127mm
Spine width: 28mm