Alasdair Gray: Lanark [2016] paperback ZTRAV Twilight has his work cut

Twilight has his work cut out for him procuring both a wife and a child for his mission to infiltrate an elite private school

from their origins to the dawn of the Principate

when behaviours and appearances reflected social status and propriety and where the social display of wealth and privilege were inseparable from food and clothing

and much more - to illustrate each frog's

In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising

Alasdair Gray: Lanark [2016] paperback ZTRAV Twilight has his work cut'Probably the greatest novel of the century' Observer 'Remarkable' William Boyd Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide range, its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love, and yet our compulsion to go on trying.