The author's first book (first published by Canongate in 1981) and a major twentieth-century fantasy. Braziller's edition was printed in the UK from the plates of the Canongate edition. edition was published by Lippincott & Crowell in trade paperback format only in February 1981, the same month as the Scottish edition published by Canongate. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 77. a shattering work of fiction in the modern idiom.' - Burgess, Ninety-nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939, p. Bizarre after death fantasy in which the protagonist is transported to the regimented underground dystopia Unthank, a kind of lightless Limbo where people die of 'metaphorical diseases including one known as dragonhide, which leads to explosive disintegration through excess of bottled-up internal heat or emotion, and others whose victims' remains are exploited by the state for munitions and food.' - John Clute, SFE (online).

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