<div>The cult classic novel of dreamlike fantasy and psychological realism by the author of Poor Things: A work of &ldquo;vivid imagination, yielding copious riches.&rdquo;&mdash;The Times Literary Supplement From its first publication in 1981, Alasdair Gray&rsquo;s Lanark was hailed as a masterpiece, inspiring Anthony Burgess to proclaim Gray the most important Scottish novelist since Walter Scott. With its echoes of Dante, Blake, Joyce, Kafka, and Lewis Carroll, Lanark has been published around the world to unanimous acclaim. A man wakes up on a train with no memory and seashells in his pockets. He finds himself arriving in a peculiar place called Unthank&mdash;where the sun only comes up part-way and the inhabitants are prone to disappearing. He names himself Lanark and soon encounters a gallery of characters who suffer from joblessness, alienation, and strange maladies. The novel&rsquo;s time-shifting narrative then draws readers into Lanark&rsquo;s former life in Glasgow as it explores its twin themes of humankind&rsquo;s inability to love and our compulsion to go on trying. This edition of Lanark features an introduction by the award-winning novelist Janice Galloway, as well as &ldquo;Gray&rsquo;s Tailpiece,&rdquo; a fascinating addendum to the novel. &ldquo;It was time Scotland produced a shattering work of fiction in the modern idiom. This is it.&rdquo; &mdash;Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange &ldquo;A quite extraordinary achievement, the most remarkable thing in Scottish fiction for a very long time.&rdquo; &mdash;Scotsman</div>

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<div>In this volume of stories and illustrations, the author of Poor Things &ldquo;perfected the blend of visual and verbal elements [that] characterized his work&rdquo; (Financial Times). In &ldquo;The Crank that Made the Revolution,&rdquo; an enterprising inventor presents the world with his contribution to the Industrial Revolution: an &ldquo;improved duck.&rdquo; When a man splits in two, it isn&rsquo;t long before his two selves come to blows in &ldquo;The Spread of Ian Nicol.&rdquo; And a young boy witnesses a shooting star land in his back garden in &ldquo;The Star.&rdquo; In these and other short stories of the strange and fascinating, Alasdair Gray reaffirms his reputation as one of Scotland&rsquo;s most original and important contemporary writers. In Unlikely Stories, Mostly, Alasdair Gray combines his surreal and darkly funny stories with original artwork to create a truly unique reading experience. This edition includes a postscript by the author and Douglas Gifford. &ldquo;The book is a wonder of ingenuity, a varied and rich collection in which Gray&#39;s abilities as a visual artist and illustrator are placed not only beside but within the products of his fertile imagination as a writer.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post &ldquo;Not since William Blake has a British artist wed pictorial and literary talent to such powerful effect.&rdquo; &mdash;Financial Times</div>

Unlikely Stories, Mostly

<div>A postmodern novel of melancholy memory and erotic fantasy&mdash;&ldquo;a filthy tour de force&rdquo;&mdash;by the acclaimed Scottish author of Poor Things (The Washington Post). 1982, Janine is a searing portrait of male need and inadequacy, as explored via the lonely sexual fantasies of Jock McLeish, failed husband, lover, and businessman. Alone in a hotel room, Jock attempts again and again to escape the realities of his life through an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy featuring a woman named Janine. As various memories&mdash;from childhood to marriage to his present predicament&mdash;invade his imagination, Jock reels through this endlessly inventive black comedy of a man&rsquo;s mind. An unforgettably challenging book about power and powerlessness, men and women, masters and servants, small countries and big countries, Alasdair Gray&rsquo;s exploration of the politics of pornography has lost none of its power to shock. &ldquo;1982, Janine has a verbal energy, an intensity of vision that has mostly been missing from the English novel since D.H. Lawrence.&rdquo; &mdash;New York Times &ldquo;1982, Janine revived my flagging impetus to continue writing myself.&rdquo; &mdash;Jonathan Coe, winner of the 2019 Costa Novel Award </div>

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