All Kinds of Folk

By: Douglas Murphy

The late Alasdair Gray was Glasgow’s greatest writer and painter, a talent worthy of that great city, which he depicted in murals and his monumental novels.

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There’s a figure on Alasdair Gray’s cover for Lanark, his 1981 masterwork, which causes eerie feelings in my sister and I. One of four heads aligned at the bottom of the allegorical illustration depicts a tousle-haired man, bony-faced, moustachioed, and serious, that bears an uncanny resemblance to our father as he would have looked then. […]

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There’s a figure on Alasdair Gray’s cover for Lanark, his 1981 masterwork, which causes eerie feelings in my sister and I. One of four heads aligned at the bottom of the allegorical illustration depicts a tousle-haired man, bony-faced, moustachioed, and serious, that bears an uncanny resemblance to our father as he would have looked then. […]

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There’s a figure on Alasdair Gray’s cover for Lanark, his 1981 masterwork, which causes eerie feelings in my sister and I. One of four heads aligned at the bottom of the allegorical illustration depicts a tousle-haired man, bony-faced, moustachioed, and serious, that bears an uncanny resemblance to our father as he would have looked then. […]

There’s a figure on Alasdair Gray’s cover for Lanark, his 1981 masterwork, which causes eerie feelings in my sister and I. One of four heads aligned at the bottom of the allegorical illustration depicts a tousle-haired man, bony-faced, moustachioed, and serious, that bears an uncanny resemblance to our father as he would have looked then. […]

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