Lanark: A Life in Four Books (Canons)

Set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, this modern vision of hell tells the interwoven stories of two men: Lanark and Duncan Thaw. As the Life in Four Books unfolds, the strange, buried relationship between Lanark and Thaw slowly starts to emerge. Lanark is a towering work of the imagination and is the culmination of twenty-five years of work by Gray, who also illustrated and designed the novel. On its first publication it was immediately recognised as a major work of literature, and drew comparisons with Dante, Black, Joyce, Orwell, Kafka, Huxley and Lewis Carroll. Thirty years on, its power, majesty, anger and relevance has only intensified.

• | Author: Alasdair Gray, William Boyd
• | Publisher: Canongate Canons
• | Publication Date: Oct 03, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 592 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1782117148
• | ISBN-13: 9781782117148