Lanark: A Life in Four Books

Name: Lanark: A Life in Four Books
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Alasdair Gray
ISBN: 9781841959078

Alasdair Gray

31/05/2007
Canongate Books

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Lanark: A Life in Four Books par Alasdair Gray

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide range, its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love, and yet our compulsion to go on trying. Widely recognised as a modern classic, Alasdair Gray's magnum opus was first published in 1981 and immediately established him as one of Britain's leading writers. Comparisons have been made to Dante, Blake, Joyce, Orwell, Kafka, Huxley and Lewis Carroll. This timely new edition should cement his reputation as one of our greatest living writers. Revue de presse 'I was absolutely knocked out by Lanark. I think it's the best in Scottish literature in the twentieth century.' Iain Banks --Iain Banks Biographie de l'auteur Alasdair Gray is an old, asthmatic Glaswegian who lives by painting, writing and book design. He is currently working on a book about his visual art, A Life in Pictures, copiously illustrated, to be published by Canongate in 2008.