Lanark: A Life in 4 Books
Alasdair Gray
560 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0330319655
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 1994
British LiteratureClassicsContemporaryDystopiaFantasyFictionLiteratureNovelsScience FictionScotland
Duncan Thaw, the narrator, has to cope with a loveless family and the drudgery of growing to maturity in Glasgow. Elsewhere the author moves Thaw into fantasy when he sends him to Unthank, a city he is condemned to after his death. From the author of “Something Leather”.