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Lanark: A Life in Four Books (The Canons)
Alasdair Gray
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Description for Lanark: A Life in Four Books (The Canons)
Paperback. 'The best Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott' ANTHONY BURGESS This cornerstone epic is now available as a beautiful canon with an introduction by William Boyd Series: Canons. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 41. Weight in Grams: 436.
'Probably the greatest 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.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Canons
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Canons
Condition
New
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782117148
SKU
V9781782117148
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About Alasdair Gray
Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, he has written, 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 his own words, 'Alasdair Gray is a fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glaswegian pedestrian who has mainly lived by writing and designing books, most of them fiction.'
Reviews for Lanark: A Life in Four Books (The Canons)
I was absolutely knocked out by Lanark. I think it's the best in Scottish literature this century
Iain Banks Probably the greatest novel of the century . . . it marked the beginning of a new era
James Campbell
Observer
It was time Scotland produced a shattering work of fiction in the modern idiom. This is it . . . [Gray is] the best Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott
Anthony Burgess When dawn comes up and retires in dismay, we find ourselves in the presence of an overpowering surreal imagination. A saga of a city where reality is about as reliable as a Salvador Dali watch
Brian Aldiss A quite extraordinary achievement, the most remarkable thing in Scottish fiction for a very long time. It has changed the landscape
Allan Massie
The Scotsman
Undoubtedly the best work of fiction written by a Scottish author for decades
Time Out
Remarkable. . . Lanark is a work of loving and vivid imagination, yielding copious riches
William Boyd
Times Literary Supplement
From a lesser writer, stygian darkness and baroque structure might see off a mass audience and reduce a book to cult status. In Gray's hands, the simple, direct prose found him a wide readership.
The Times
A phantasmagorical mixture of realism and fantasy
The List
In some ways it's even more relevant today. It's such an elaborate work of both fantasy and political satire, a sort of Gulliver's Travels for 20th Century Scotland
Scotland on Sunday
Iain Banks Probably the greatest novel of the century . . . it marked the beginning of a new era
James Campbell
Observer
It was time Scotland produced a shattering work of fiction in the modern idiom. This is it . . . [Gray is] the best Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott
Anthony Burgess When dawn comes up and retires in dismay, we find ourselves in the presence of an overpowering surreal imagination. A saga of a city where reality is about as reliable as a Salvador Dali watch
Brian Aldiss A quite extraordinary achievement, the most remarkable thing in Scottish fiction for a very long time. It has changed the landscape
Allan Massie
The Scotsman
Undoubtedly the best work of fiction written by a Scottish author for decades
Time Out
Remarkable. . . Lanark is a work of loving and vivid imagination, yielding copious riches
William Boyd
Times Literary Supplement
From a lesser writer, stygian darkness and baroque structure might see off a mass audience and reduce a book to cult status. In Gray's hands, the simple, direct prose found him a wide readership.
The Times
A phantasmagorical mixture of realism and fantasy
The List
In some ways it's even more relevant today. It's such an elaborate work of both fantasy and political satire, a sort of Gulliver's Travels for 20th Century Scotland
Scotland on Sunday