Lanark
A Life in Four Books (Canons)
by Alasdair Gray
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appears in About Scotland, Science Fiction, and Fantasy.
This work, originally published in 1981, has been hailed as the most influential Scottish novel of the second half of the 20th century. Its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, personal and political, about humankind's inability to love and yet our compulsion to go on trying....
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appears in About Scotland, Science Fiction, and Fantasy.
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