Knocks the socks off almost everything written on this little island in the past fifty years. * * The Times * * Lanark, the first novel and arguably the masterpiece of gouges a dwelling place in your imagination and leaves it forever altered. In Gray's hands, the simple, direct prose found him a wide readership. Lanark is a work of loving and vivid imagination, yielding copious riches - William Boyd * * Times Literary Supplement * * From a lesser writer, stygian darkness and baroque structure might see off a mass audience and reduce a book to cult status. It has changed the landscape - Allan Massie * * The Scotsman * * Undoubtedly the best work of fiction written by a Scottish author for decades * * Time Out * * Remarkable. A saga of a city where reality is about as reliable as a Salvador Dali watch - Brian Aldiss A quite extraordinary achievement, the most remarkable thing in Scottish fiction for a very long time. the best Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott - Anthony Burgess When dawn comes up and retires in dismay, we find ourselves in the presence of an overpowering surreal imagination. it marked the beginning of a new era - James Campbell * * Observer * * It was time Scotland produced a shattering work of fiction in the modern idiom. I think it's the best in Scottish literature this century - Iain Banks Probably the greatest novel of the century.
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