{"product_id":"glasgow-the-autobiography-paperback-2","title":"Glasgow: The Autobiography - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlan Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlasgow: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncluding 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan Taylor \u003c\/b\u003ehas been a journalist for over 30 years. He was deputy and managing editor at the \u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e, and for the last 15 years has been Writer-at-Large for the \u003ci\u003eSunday Herald\u003c\/i\u003e. He has contributed to numerous publications, including \u003ci\u003eThe TLS, The New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Melbourne Age\u003c\/i\u003e, and edited three acclaimed anthologies - \u003ci\u003eThe Assassin's Cloak\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Annexe\u003c\/i\u003e (2004) and\u003ci\u003e The Country Dairies\u003c\/i\u003e (2009).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.99 x 7.77 x 5.05 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 20, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47281071423737,"sku":"9781780278032","price":20.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Q2F6ZUpYekVaTURHQlAraFFHTmIyZz09_d39a2522-8c62-4e30-a448-c56b22b1848d.webp?v=1769044402","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/glasgow-the-autobiography-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}