PARADISE

Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Three. Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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'Reveals Gray's powers of insight and invention' Guardian'One of the most vital retellings of the poem to date' SpectatorDante, now guided by Beatrice, faces the final third of his epic journey through the wheels of divine justice. Yet as he passes through the spheres of Heaven, he struggles with his faith, striving to understand the scales of good and evil that determine the fate of a human soul.The final book from Alasdair Gray, Paradise is a fitting conclusion to his own irreplaceable body of work, as well as to his masterful retelling of Dante's trilogy.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-11-05
Mått144 x 240 x 18 mm
Vikt292 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor144
FörlagCanongate Books
ISBN9781786894748

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Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from the Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, he authored, designed and illustrated seven novels, several books of short stories, a collection of his stage, radio and TV plays and a book of his visual art, A Life in Pictures. In November 2019, he received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Saltire Society. He died in December 2019, aged eighty-five.