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Lanark (Canongate Classics)
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Lanark: A Life in Four Books (Canongate Classics)
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"Lanark" was first published in 1981, but its author spent 20 years writing it. And it's indeed a massive piece. The whole book is divided into four books (starting with book 3). I think it's one serious classic novel, sadly not as famous as it ought to be; but this here review will change... more info

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Something Leather (Picador Books)
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It bewilders me that such a fine piece of work should drop out of print so quickly, while so much that's mediocre or worse gains a wide audience and many reprints. This comic and satirical novel is written in a neo-picaresque chain-of-stories form, and is a fine companion to Gray's prizewinning... more info

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1982, Janine (Canongate Classics)
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This is a powerful and unusual novel. I'm surprised that Gray isn't more widely known. His writing is challenging but rewarding.

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Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D. Scottish Public Health Officer (British Literature Series)
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I make it my job to read some pretty weird books--as an aficionado of science fiction and fantasy, I sometimes run into some doozies-- but this novel by Gray has to be one of the strangest that I've run into recently. The fact that this novel was not published in the genre, and won a couple of... more info

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The Ends of Our Tethers: 13 Sorry Stories
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I was introduced to this work by Madison Smartt Bell when he read "15 February 2003" to a creative writing class a few years ago. I was very intrigued and bought the book shortly after. The short stories in this book are both visionary and hilarious. Gray has a beautiful ability to capture a deep... more info

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The Book of Prefaces
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I picked this book up at the library because it had an interesting look to it. It is unusually designed and weirdly illustrated. It's great to have all these wonderful prefaces in one handy volume, but Gray, who supplies an introduction and many of the glosses, writes in a kind of shorthand,... more info

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Lanark: A Life in 4 Books (Harvest Book)
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I didn't like this book. I didn't like it at all----Well, let me rephrase: I didn't like Books Three or Four in this rambling tetralogy. That is, I didn't care for, didn't like, didn't fancy, was much off put by the mediocre "Dystopian" Science Fiction section and, above all, by the cutesy so-called... more info

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Five Letters from an Eastern Empire (Penguin 60s)
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This mini volume consists of the story by the same name from Unlikely Stories, Mostly. It is a brilliant story that is obsessed with the structures of our society (be they buildings, governments, or traditions) and full of interesting characters working their way through a good plot. It also,... more info

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