false 161037 16 From its first publication in 1981, Lanark was hailed as a masterpiece and it has come to be widely regarded as the most remarkable and influential Scottish novel of the second half of the twentieth century. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide-ranging concerns, its playful narrative conveys at its core a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love, and yet our compulsion to go on trying. With its echoes of Dante, Blake, Joyce, Kafka, and Lewis Carroll, Lanark has been published all over the world and to unanimous acclaim. This collector's edition -- deluxe four-volume slipcased and numbered -- marks the novel's return to its original publisher and features a superb new introduction by the award-winning novelist Janice Galloway. In addition, it includes the author's Tailpiece, a fascinating addendum to the novel. "It was time Scotland produced a shattering work of fiction in the modern idiom. This is it." -- Anthony Burgess" Alasdair Gray is one of the most important living writers in English." -- Stephen Bernstein, The New York Times Book Review "Remarkable ... Lanark is a work of loving and vivid imagination, yielding copious riches." -- William Boyd, The Times Literary Supplement (London) "Undoubtedly the best work of fiction written by a Scottish author for decades." -- Time Out (London) "A quite extraordinary achievement, the most remarkable thing in Scottish fiction for a very long time." -- The Scotsman 958496 1981 Lanark: A Life in Four Books (Canongate Classics) total:350|5:177|4:121|3:38|2:9|1:5| 350 1506 654 48 5 3 false false Wed Jun 13 21:56:13 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 13 21:58:18 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Aug 23 00:12:10 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 00:17:12 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Mar 01 14:32:29 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 14:32:58 -0800 2009 5 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Sep 02 13:46:03 -0700 2007 Sat Dec 15 17:55:58 -0800 2007 Lanark is a story (or two) told in the wrong (but really quite right) order, a dystopian take on all the things that so readily lend themselves to the dystopian treatment: capitalism, power, love, etc. There are funny bits, fantastical bits, postmodern bits, and depressing bits, and Alasdair Gray i...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 02 11:16:24 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 24 06:22:02 -0700 2009 Lanark is really two stories: the story of the title character’s fumbling attempts to find love and enjoy life in a Kafkaesque future Glasgow; and the mid-twentieth-century coming-of-age story of a boy, Thaw, who is similarly alienated from society and the female sex, and is driven mad by a yearni...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 09:26:42 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 09:27:48 -0800 2008 Once...so far the Bo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 06:05:09 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 20:10:00 -0700 2008
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It tells the story of someone's life on so many levels, whilst giving you a real feel for Lanarkshire the area of Scotland, and engulfing you in surreal worlds with bizarre relationships and fantastical delusion.

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