Alasdair gray's lanark6/7/2023 Clearly Lanark had already been designated an "important" novel by the TLS (even now it would be virtually unheard of to grant a full page to a first novel) and it had been decided to give it due prominence. I still have the diligent notes I made on that first reading - they run to three and a half closely written pages. Indeed, as a tyro novelist myself, I was flattered to be asked to review it at such length. However, I can detect no trace of bitterness or chippiness in my analysis of Gray's novel. My novel had been reviewed in the TLS on January 30 that year, somewhat patronisingly ("engaging", "amusing"), by DAN Jones, in a review that was one-third the length of my review of Lanark. Looking back now, it seems even more interesting that I came to review Lanark - Gray's first novel - a month after my own first novel, A Good Man in Africa, had been published.
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