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2016., Canongate Books Call No: SC Fic Gra Edition: Canons edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Canons.Summary Note: MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). 'Probably the greatest novel of the century' Observer 'Remarkable ...A work of loving and vivid imagination, yielding copious riches' WILLIAM BOYD 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. First published in 1981, Lanark immediately established Gray as one of Britain's leading writers.
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c2010., Canongate Call No: SC 757 G778l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The autobiography in words and pictures of the fascinating and acclaimed author of Lanark, a key figure in postmodern art. In this autopictography he gathers together the work that has mattered most to him over the years, and weaves the story of his life through and around these pictures in his own unmistakable style. A beautifully and copiously illustrated book, designed by himself, this is life as seen by one of the millennium's most entertaining and wry creative geniuses.
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2019., Canongate Books Ltd. Call No: SC Bio G778o Edition: Revised edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Engraved on the wall outside the Scottish Parliament are the words "Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation." Attributed to Alasdair Gray, Scotland's national treasure, this perfectly exemplifies Gray's humility, his awareness that his status is a shared one. This goes some way to explain the title of Gray's essay collection,Of Me and Others. "I thought this book would turn out to be a ragbag of interesting scraps," he writes in the foreword, "I now think it has the unity of a struggle for a confident culture, a struggle shared with a few who became good friends and thousands I have never met." This essay collection is all at once an intellectual autobiography of Scotland's greatest living writer; a conversation with writers and painters who influenced and have been influenced by him, and a cultural and political manifesto-as-collage. A cult figure all over the world and across generations, Gray engages with figures both known in North America, such as R.D. Laing, Anthony Burgess and Will Self, and largely unknown; Susan Boyd, Joan Ure, and Philip Hobsbaum. What emerges is a portrait not just of himself, but of a radically democratic vision of society, profoundly concerned not just with self-expression but of care for one's fellow citizens.
