zacharyngow 's review for:

The Fall of Kelvin Walker: A Fable of the Sixties by Alasdair Gray

3.0

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This is the third Alasdair Gray book I have read (Poor Things, A History Maker). The book has a conniving protagonist who rises in the field of journalism. His blatantly self-serving attitude is quite amusing and the politics are greatly interesting. Alasdair's depiction of the London scene is funny. I liked the interviews building into a final showdown. The book then goes into Calvinism. I saw that he wrote this after recording a documentary, I would like to watch that to recontextualize this. While I enjoyed this, I didn't think it was as good as the others. It didn't help that I had the much uglier Penguin edition...