In this recording Alasdair reads his own favourite excerpt from Lanark – Chapter 44. End. When I asked him why he had chosen this chapter he said "because it's the end and, I think, a rather good one. It's neither too escapistly happy or too grimly pessimistic - which are both things I wished to avoid."

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