Lanark changed the landscape of Scottish fiction, opening up the imaginative territory inhabited today by writers such as A.L. One of the landmarks of twentieth-century fiction.
In Gray's hands, the simple, direct prose found him a wide readership- "The Times" It is part of the system of whispers and sedition and direct communion, one voice to another, we call literature-Janice Galloway "Guardian"įrom a lesser writer, stygian darkness and baroque structure might see off a mass audience and reduce a book to cult status. Lanark, in common with all great books, is still, and always will be, an act of resistance. Urban and wholly contemporary, yet suffused with the past. It increases the scope of fiction's possibilities- "Independent"Īt times exuberant, at times despairing, always vivid. Knocks the socks off almost everything written on this little island in the past fifty years. Lanark, the first novel and arguably the masterpiece of gouges a dwelling place in your imagination and leaves it forever altered. First published in 1981, Lanark established Alasdair Gray as one of Britain's leading writers and kickstarted the modern renaissance of Scottish literature. A work of extraordinary imagination, its playful narrative conveys a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love, and yet our compulsion to go on trying.
'Probably the greatest novel of the century' Observer Lanark, a modern vision of hell set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. About the Book 40th anniversary commemorative hardback edition of the modern classic, introduced by William Boyd
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