Awards

• Winner of Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year 1982 (UK)
• Winner of Saltire Society Scottish Fiction Book of the Year 1982 (UK)

Overview

'Probably the greatest novel of the century' Observer Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide range, its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love, and yet our compulsion to go on trying. First published in 1981, Lanark immediately established Gray as one of Britain's leading writers.

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I was absolutely knocked out by Lanark. I think it's the best in Scottish literature this century. Iain Banks, author, The Wasp Factory

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Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, Alasdair Gray has published twenty books, most of them novels and short stories. In his own words, 'Alasdair Gray is a fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glaswegian pedestrian who has mainly lived by writing and designing books, most of them fiction.'

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