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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.Its publication in 1981 Read More..

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Description	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.Its publication in 1981 prompted Anthony Burgess to call Gray "the best Scottish novelist since Walter Scott".Cited in Lanark won the inaugural Saltire Society Book of the Year award in 1982, and was also named Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year. 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."
Description	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.Its publication in 1981 prompted Anthony Burgess to call Gray "the best Scottish novelist since Walter Scott".Cited in Lanark won the inaugural Saltire Society Book of the Year award in 1982, and was also named Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year. 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."

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Name	Lanark
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Authors	Alasdair Gray
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Language	English
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Country	Scotland
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Pages	560 pp
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Media_type	Print (hardcover)
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Isbn	0-903937-74-3
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Oclc	12635568
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Publisher	Canongate Press
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Pub_date	1981
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Release_date	1981
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