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Account & Lists Sign in Account & Lists Returns & Orders. Price New from Amazon.co.uk: lanark alasdair gray. See search results for this author. Amazon.com Review The preface usually contains one of four pleasures, says anthologist Alasdair Gray. He is the author of Poor Things, Lannark, and 1982 Janine, among other novels and story collections. Alasdair Gray (Author), William Boyd (Introduction) 4.2 out of 5 stars 94 ratings. This is an early collection, mostly of SF and dystopia fantasy stories, with a long pseudo-historical pastiche of Thomas Urquhart (the 17th century translator of Rabelais). . . The cult classic Scottish novel of dreamlike fantasy and psychological realism: “a work of loving and vivid imagination, yielding copious riches” (The Times Literary Supplement).From its first publication in 1981, Alasdair Gray’s Lanark was hailed as a masterpiece, inspiring Anthony Burgess to proclaim Gray the most important Scottish novelist since Walter Scott. . A painter as well as a writer, Mr. Gray describes himself as "an artist in words and pictures." . Skip to main content.co.uk. There is the biographical snippet, full of gossipy details that "make us feel at home in earlier times." Laurence Stern, is very evident, but Gray does not seem merely derivative from these masters. Alasdair Gray is that rather rare bird among contemporary British writers-a genuine experimentalist . (David Lodge) A great writer, perhaps the greatest living in Britain today. Learn about Author Central. The cult classic Scottish novel of dreamlike fantasy and psychological realism: “a work of loving and vivid imagination, yielding copious riches” (The Times Literary Supplement).From its first publication in 1981, Alasdair Gray’s Lanark was hailed as a masterpiece, inspiring Anthony Burgess to proclaim Gray the most important Scottish novelist since Walter Scott. Prime Basket. Alasdair Gray was in the vanguard of the modern dirty Scottish novelists. Alasdair Gray was born in 1934 in Glasgow, where he still lives. Are you an author? See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. Hello, Sign in. He is very much his own man. There is the author's attempt to forestall criticism (in first editions) or to answer it (in later ones). The influence of James Joyce, and .