Lanark: A Life in Four Books
Author(s): Alasdair Gray
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. Widely recognised as a modern classic, Alasdair Gray's magnum opus was first published in 1981 and immediately established him as one of Britain's leading writers. Comparisons have been made to Dante, Blake, Joyce, Orwell, Kafka, Huxley and Lewis Carroll. This timely new edition should cement his reputation as one of our greatest living writers.
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With an introduction by William Boyd
Alasdair Gray is, in his own words, an old, asthmatic Glaswegian who lives by painting, writing and book design. William Boyd is the author of nine novels, including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet; and Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year, the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year and a Richard & Judy selection. His most recent novel, Ordinary Thunderstorms, was published in 2009 and film rights have already been sold. William Boyd lives in London.
General Fields
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- : Canongate Books Ltd
- : Canongate Canons
- : 0.486
- : 31 July 2011
- : 198mm X 129mm X 37mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Illustrations
- : 592
- : 823.914
- : 1
- : BC
- : Alasdair Gray