GRAY, Alasdair

Lanark: A Life in 4 Books [Limited Edition, Signed]

Edinburgh: Canongate Publishing, 1985. Limited Edition. One of 1,000 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.778. Octavo (24cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and covers; dustjacket; [viii],560,[8]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced £15), with gentle sunning to the spine.

"Gray's first novel is a true Scottish epic, both in scope and ambition. Beginning in a realistic mode that follows the life of a Glasgow artist until his demise, the book then liberally dips into the fantastic with a superb exploration of the afterworld. An erotic and highly personal variation on the Divine Comedy, Gray's sprawling book gleefully borrows from many literary sources, but the fantastic cities of his imagination created on the other side long remain in the reader's memory" (Barron, Fantasy Literature: A Reader's Guide 4A-121). BURGESS 99.

Price: $750.00

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