Lanark: A Life In Four Books

by Alasdair Gray

2021-01-06 01:42:59

''The best Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott'' ANTHONY BURGESSThis cornerstone epic is now available as a beautiful canon with an introduction by William BoydProbably thegreatest novel of the century'' Observer ''Remarkable . . . A work of lov... Read more
''The best Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott'' ANTHONY BURGESSThis cornerstone epic is now available as a beautiful canon with an introduction by William BoydProbably thegreatest novel of the century'' Observer ''Remarkable . . . A work of loving and vivid imagination, yielding copious riches''WILLIAM BOYD Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide range, its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind''s inability to love, and yet our compulsion to go on trying. First published in 1981, Lanark immediately established Gray as one of Britain''s leading writers. Less

Book Details

File size5.13 X 7.74 X 1.41 in
Print pages592
PublisherCanongate Books
Publication date September 11, 2016
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781782117148
Alasdair Gray won the the Whitbread and Guardian Awards for POOR THINGS. He is also the author of THE BOOK OF PREFACES, the story-collection, TEN TALES TALL AND TRUE, and the groundbreaking modern cla...

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