Word: lanark
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Gray wove his early struggles into Lanark, the autobiographical novel that finally put him on literature's world map in 1981. His novels and stories since then, as well as the murals he barters for lunches, or the exquisite illustrations and typography of the Book of Prefaces he spent more than a decade fussing over, have rarely reverberated beyond Glasgow or his faithful readers. Glass portrays an artist too engrossed in his own creativity to notice. Gray, a jack of all trades, is master of one: himself...
...Aggressive and flamboyant, he was dubbed "McCrash" for his rolls, wrecks and wins in such competitions as the X Games, the Paris-to-Dakar rally and the Race of Champions. But there were no survivors last weekend when the helicopter that McRae was piloting crashed near his home in Lanark, Scotland. McRae, his son Johnny, 5, and two others died in the blaze. McRae...
...Lanark who seems the more unreal of the two. His life, in some ways, draws a hyperbolic counterpart to Thaw’s: where Thaw suffers from eczema, Lanark contracts a horrific illness known as dragonhide. Where Thaw’s Glasgow is a dreary, workaday city, Lanark’s surroundings are a dehumanized industrial nightmare. The tales of the two men stand well on their own; read together, however, each story illuminates the other, calling out to each other across the borders of narrative to create a single masterpiece...
...written word. Descriptions of dinner are laid out across a page as if the words were dishes upon a table; God (or is it the author?) speaks in the margins. Perhaps most notoriously, Gray often engages in bouts of metafiction throughout his novels: in “Lanark,” he arranges a meeting between character and author, compiles a list of largely nonsensical footnotes, and inserts an epilogue a good eighty pages before the end of the book...
...Lanark: A Life in Four Books By Alasdair Gray George Braziller In Stores...