Seller Rating: Contact seller Book New - Hardcover Condition: New US 24. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. Lanark: A Life in Four Books (Hardback or Cased Book) Gray, Alasdair Published by Canongate Books, 2021 ISBN 10: 1838852905 ISBN 13: 9781838852900 Seller: BargainBookStores, Grand Rapids, U.S.A. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 77. Alasdair Gray Lanark: A Life in Four Books Hardcover Apby Alasdair Gray (Author), William Boyd (Introduction) 344 ratings Part of: Harper Colophon Books (71 books) See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 25.49 25 Used from 19.10 35 New from 18. a shattering work of fiction in the modern idiom." - Burgess, Ninety-nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939, p. Bizarre after death fantasy in which the protagonist is transported to the regimented underground dystopia Unthank, a kind of lightless Limbo where people die of "metaphorical diseases including one known as dragonhide, which leads to explosive disintegration through excess of bottled-up internal heat or emotion, and others whose victims' remains are exploited by the state for munitions and food." - John Clute, SFE (online).
The author's first book (first published by Canongate in 1981) and a major twentieth-century fantasy. Within the arch-genre of narrative,Lanarks status as a novel needs little justification, and the analysis focuses on the affnities that Grays first novel has.
Braziller's edition was printed in the UK from the plates of the Canongate edition. edition was published by Lippincott & Crowell in trade paperback format only in February 1981, the same month as the Scottish edition published by Canongate.
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