vickeyfoggin 's review for:

Lanark by Alasdair Gray

3.0

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I am relieved that I have finished this. It's a classical epic poem about the life of Lanark, in prose, set in post-industrial Glasgow and a dystopian future. Parts of it are brilliant and I raced through, eager to figure out what in the hell was happening. Other parts are like a concentrated depressive episode, with grey skies and grey thoughts and suffocating asthma to make every moment an exhausting struggle. If Kurt Vonnegut had been a dour Scotsman instead of a wisecracking New Yorker, he'd have written this.