Lanark - A Life in 4 books, Alasdair Gray: Paperback: Glasgow

By Alasdair Gray.

Published by Granada Publishing, London, 1982. Paperback, 560 pages.

CONDITION
Overall good condition - see photos. Some light marks/scuffs to cover, and light wear at corners/edges, commensurate with age. No names or writing. A good clean copy.

Lanark, subtitled A Life in Four Books, is the first novel of Scottish writer Alasdair Gray. Written over a period of almost thirty years, it combines realist and dystopian surrealist depictions of his home city of Glasgow. Its publication in 1981 prompted Anthony Burgess to call Gray "the best Scottish novelist since Walter Scott". Lanark won the inaugural Saltire Society Book of the Year award in 1982, and was also named Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year. The book, still his best known, has since become a cult classic. In 2008, The Guardian heralded Lanark as "one of the landmarks of 20th-century fiction.

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