Alasdair Gray: Lanark [2016] paperback ZTRAV In the wake of a

In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising

and much more - to illustrate each frog's

and other images from the dangerous present - a journey on the underground

This is the story of a quest: to find a Theory of Everything

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

Alasdair Gray: Lanark [2016] paperback ZTRAV In the wake of a'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.