The Ends Of Our Tethers: Thirteen Sorry Stories (Paperback, Main)

Peers may describe him as 'a great writer ...perhaps the greatest living in Britain today,' (Will Self); but Alasdair Gray sees himself as 'a fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glasgow pedestrian.' Such is the humour that abounds in Gray's first work of fiction in seven years. In these 13 Sorry Stories, Gray reaffirms his position as a master of the short story. Illustrated throughout with the author's own eccentric drawings, there are tales of love and loss as the body, ungracefully ages: stories of mischievous, old men and effective messages from Gray himself, proving he is not at the 'end of his tether'.