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Lanark - Signed Copy (Custom Clamshell)
by Alasdair Gray
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Canongate Publishing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. Lanark was written over a period of at least 30 years. On publication in 1981 Anthony Burgess called Gray "The best Scottish novelist since Walter Scott". Lanark won the inaugural Saltire Society Book of the year 1982, was also named "Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year. The book as since become a cult classic and in 2008 The Guardian heralded Lanark as "one of the landmarks of 20th century fiction. The book is in Fine condition, square copy with tight binding. Signed on the front pastedown; "Alasdair Gray 27 February 1981". Laid in is an Lanark book mark from Canongate, likely provided on launch since the date of signing likely also correspond to the launch of the book. A fine dust jacket, with very minor edgewear. Now with a protective acetate cover. ; 560 pages; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
Lanark, a modern vision of hell set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary, playful imagination, it conveys a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love, and yet our compulsion is to go on trying. First published in 1981, Lanark immediately established Gray as one of Britain's leading writers, compared with - among others - Dante, Blake, Joyce, Orwell, Kafka, Huxley and Lewis Carroll. This new edition includes an introduction by William Boyd as well as the author's fascinating addendum, the 'Tailpiece' (2001).
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- Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Lanark - Signed Copy (Custom Clamshell)
- Author
- Alasdair Gray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Canongate Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1981
- Weight
- 0.00
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