It starts with a short HG Wells-style fantasy about a star falling into a tenement. There is a characteristic Alasdair Gray style: strong outlines, an anatomical sensibility that recalls Gray’s nineteenth-century medical namesake, and an Escher-like penchant, in some paintings, for visual paradox. The book illustrates the vast range of his writing and, it must be said, its sometimes very uneven quality. Published in 1980, it was the first novel to invest Glasgow - an industrial city associated more with gritty urban realism than romance - with a rich, mysterious literary language. Not any more: the missing half can now be found in here. Twenty-five years in the making, Alasdair Grays 'Lanark' immediately announced itself as perhaps the 20th centurys most significant piece of Scottish fiction. Alasdair Grays writing, and in particular his great novel Lanark: A Life in Four. more Combine Editions Alasdair Gray’s books Average rating: 4.02 14,452 ratings 1,295 reviews 91 distinct works Similar authors More books by Alasdair Gray Series by Alasdair Gray Lanark. His writing style is postmodern and has been compared with those of Franz Kafka, G. Gray once told a biographer that the story of his life was ‘all in Lanark’. SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature, Volume: 4. Before Lanark, he had plays performed on radio and TV. A running commentary by Gray himself provides an invaluable account of his early life and schooling, his student days at the Glasgow School of Art, and his later successes and setbacks.
Bringing together images from the full span of his career, family snapshots, formative influences and work by friends and collaborators, this superb book should at last correct the imbalance. Since the publication of his 1981 novel Lanark, Alasdair Gray’s reputation as a writer has tended to overshadow his extraordinary talents as an illustrator, painter, printmaker, muralist and typographer.
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