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Lanark: A Life in Four Books (Canongate Classics) | 
| Author: Alasdair Gray
Creator: William Boyd
Publisher: Canongate Books
Category: Book
List Price: £9.99
Buy New: £5.74
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 7609
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 1.7
ISBN: 1841959073
EAN: 9781841959078
ASIN: 1841959073
Publication Date: May 31, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Disappointing set book material December 3, 2007
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
At times brilliant, at times maddening in its self-indulgent opacity, this felt too much like an exercise in literary virtuosity, likely to be more satisfying for the author and his literary peers, than a book for the general reader stoically soldiering on, trying to make sense of it.
The author acknowledges his debt to Kafka; I suspect there is not a little of Aldous Huxley in there as well. In turn, I am sure he has inspired the likes of David Mitchell. I read an article on A.L. Kennedy where she nominated this book as this one of her most influential reads.
I can see it as one of those books which would appear as prescribed reading on literature courses; fine, if that's your thing.
Not one I can see myself revisiting any time soon.
 A truly immense book September 6, 2007
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
My words can't even start to convey the enormity of this magnificent novel, one of the landmarks in twentieth century fiction. Just please read it and you'll then understand why Alasdair Gray has a growing legion of fans.
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