The Fall of Kelvin Walker

Alasdair Gray
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Drawing on a mixture of Scottish archetypes and British stereotypes and expressing all the author's cynicism towards religion, the media and the imperial British centre, this brief fable was reportedly inspired by Gray's own visit to London as a struggling artist to record a documentary called Under The Helmet (in which he tried to increase his sales by suggesting that he was dead).
Genres: FictionNovelsScotlandLiteratureBritish Literature
144 Pages

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