Alasdair Gray - The Fall of Kelvin Walker

Edinburgh, Canongate Publishing, 1985. First edition. Cloth. A fine, first edition copy of Alasdair Gray's novel ''The Fall of Kelvin Walker', adapted from Gray's play of the same title. The protagonist, Kelvin, was freed from his strict Calvinist upbringing through discovering Nietzsche in his hometown library. He travels to swinging-sixties London to become a successful television interviewer and newspaper columnist. Gray explores his cynicism towards religion, the media and the imperial British centre. In the publisher's original binding, with unclipped dustwrapper. Gray is probably best known for his novel 'Lanark' which was regarded as a landmark of Scottish fiction. In the publisher's original cloth binding with unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, fine. Dustwrapper is also fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.

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