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Alisdair Gray’s Lanark 25 years old

In The Guardian, William Boyd celebrates Alisdair Gray’s Lanark - published 25 years ago.

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One Response to “Alisdair Gray’s Lanark 25 years old”

1. Mark Thwaite Says:
   July 4th, 2007 at 2:32 am

   And what an uneven “masterpiece” it is! When Gray shifts away from the sci-fi nonsense there is a very tender (and, one guesses, quite autobiographical) story of a boy growing up into an artist, of the difficulties of communication and love, but the work is overlong and very awkward in parts. Still, better than most of the nonsense that gets published!

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