Lanark: A Life in Four Books
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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.
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Author | Alasdair Gray |
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Country | Scotland |
Language | English |
Publisher | Canongate Press |
Publication date | 1981 |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 560 pp |
ISBN | 0-903937-74-3 |
OCLC | 12635568 |
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Its publication in 1981 prompted Anthony Burgess to call Gray "the best Scottish novelist since Walter Scott".[1] Lanark won the inaugural Saltire Society Book of the Year award in 1982, and was also named Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year.[2] 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."[3]