1982, Janine
Alasdair Gray
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
Jock McLeish, failed husband, lover and businessman is alone in a hotel room, drinking whisky, fantasizing about sex and contemplating suicide. As he tries to distance himself from reality, his lonely, alcohol-fuelled fantasies are interrupted by a flood of memories, reminding him of his own shortcomings. An unforgettably imaginative book, deeply experimental in its form and charged with a dark humor, 1982, Janine is a searing portrait of male need and inadequacy. Gray's exploration of politics, religion, powerlessness and pornography has lost none of its power to shock and entertain.
Product Details
Price
$16.00
$14.88
Publisher
Canongate Books
Publish Date
February 05, 2019
Pages
352
Dimensions
5.1 X 1.0 X 7.7 inches | 0.55 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781786893963
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About the Author
Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, Alasdair Gray has published a great number of books, most of them novels and short stories. In his own words, "Alasdair Gray is a fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glaswegian pedestrian who has mainly lived by writing and designing books, most of them fiction."
Reviews
"Lanark is widely and justifiably regarded as Gray's masterpiece. But I love this novel and its protagonist; masturbating, alcoholic, conservative Jock. It shows the dismal outcome of a life that succumbs to fear, but is still somehow an uplifting book."----"My 10 Favorite Books," Irvine Welsh, New York Times
"1982, Janine has a verbal energy, an intensity of vision that has mostly been missing from the English novel since D.H. Lawrence . . . Gray is a natural storyteller."----New York Times
"Alasdair Gray's books have transformed the possibilities of the novel and 1982, Janine...is one of his most powerful, a perfecting of his combination of anarchy, politeness and lyricism, his philosophical understanding of the epic quotidian and his good-natured existentialism. It remakes the novel and it's never going to not be a really unputdownable read."---- "Books That Were Ahead of their Time," Ali Smith, The New Statesman
"1982, Janine has a verbal energy, an intensity of vision that has mostly been missing from the English novel since D.H. Lawrence . . . Gray is a natural storyteller."----New York Times
"Alasdair Gray's books have transformed the possibilities of the novel and 1982, Janine...is one of his most powerful, a perfecting of his combination of anarchy, politeness and lyricism, his philosophical understanding of the epic quotidian and his good-natured existentialism. It remakes the novel and it's never going to not be a really unputdownable read."---- "Books That Were Ahead of their Time," Ali Smith, The New Statesman
