The download includes Regular weight in OpenType format. Its publication in 1981 prompted Anthony Burgess to call Gray 'the best Scottish novelist since Walter Scott'.
Written over a period of almost thirty years, it combines realist and dystopian surrealist depictions of his home city of Glasgow. Includes upper and lowercase, numbers, and punctuation. Lanark, subtitled A Life in Four Books, is the first novel of Scottish writer Alasdair Gray. Publication date 1985 Topics City and town life, Working class, Young men, Artists Publisher New York : G. Lanark : a life in 4 books by Gray, Alasdair. It is ideal for large formats like headings, posters and signs. Lanark : a life in 4 books Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item.
Lanark, named after his most famous novel, is a display, sans-serif in one weight: Regular. It may not have been Alasdair Gray's intention, but as a study of going mad, it succeeds wonderfully. Versions of this type appear in his books, on illustrations, on paintings and in murals - notably at the Hillhead Station of the Glasgow Underground. Alasdair Gray has perfectly captured a young man's obsession with sexual activity in relationships, those secretive obsessive crushes and confused frustration as the women who do get close seem to blow hot and cold in an explicable way. It is inspired by the lettering created by the Scottish writer, artist and polymath, Alasdair Gray who The Guardian newspaper called “the father figure of the renaissance in Scottish literature and art”. As Lanark is swallowed up, so is the reader. A striking humanist display font inspired by Alasdair Gray's distinctive type. In Alasdair Gray’s terrible afterworld of Unthank, giant mouths descend from the sky to devour the main character, Lanark, a cold wind rising with the salty odour of rotting seaweed, then a hot one with an odour like roasting meat.
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