 First edition | |
| Author | Alasdair Gray |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Canongate Press |
Publication date | 25 February 1981[1] |
| Publication place | Scotland |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 560 pp |
| ISBN | 0-903937-74-3 |
| OCLC | 12635568 |
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".[2] Lanark won the inaugural Saltire Society Book of the Year award in 1982, and was also named Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year.[3] 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."[4]
- ^ https://blogs.bl.uk/english-and-drama/2021/02/thinking-about-alasdair-gray-and-lanark-forty-years-since-.html [bare URL]
- ^ Cited in Bernstein, Steven (1999). Alasdair Gray. Bucknell University Press. p. 18. ISBN 9780838754146.
- ^ Glass, Rodge (2012). Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography. Bloomsbury. p. 166. ISBN 9781408833353.
- ^ "Alasdair Gray". The Guardian. London. 22 July 2008. Retrieved 7 May 2010.