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GRAY, Alasdair. Lanark: A Life in Four Books.

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GRAY, Alasdair. Lanark: A Life in Four Books.GRAY, Alasdair. Lanark: A Life in Four Books. Edinburgh: Canongate Publishing. 1981. 8vo. Original black cloth, title gilt to spine, in dust wrapper; pp. [vi], 560, [2]; very light rubbing to edges of wrapper spine, light stains to top edge of text block; a very good copy in a near fine wrapper. First edition of Gray's debut novel, preceding the US edition. Set in a definitely not Glasgow of the future as well as a pre war Glasgow, this surrealist

GRAY, Alasdair. Lanark: A Life in Four Books. Edinburgh: Canongate Publishing. 1981.

8vo. Original black cloth, title gilt to spine, in dust wrapper; pp. [vi], 560, [2]; very light rubbing to edges of wrapper spine, light stains to top edge of text block; a very good copy in a near fine wrapper.

First edition of Gray's debut novel, preceding the US edition.

Set in a definitely-not-Glasgow of the future as well as a pre-war Glasgow, this surrealist dystopic nightmare contains chapters in the wrong (or right) order (depending on who you ask), an epilogue four chapters before the end, an implausible number of disturbing orifices, and a heady blend of autobiography and science fiction.

Gray cites Kafka as a major influence on the atmosphere of the novel, as well as his own experiences in the media industry, with the labyrinthine buildings and individuals talking in jargon proving particularly memorable. It has become somewhat of a cult classic, with Anthony Burgess writing that Gray is "the best Scottish novelist since Walter Scott".

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