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Old Men in Love
Alasdair Gray
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Description for Old Men in Love
A fantastic layered novel of stories within stories set in Athens, Florence, Somerset, and Glasgow. Num Pages: 312 pages, 10 Woodcuts. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 614.
"Beautiful, inventive, ambitious and nuts."-The Times (London) "Our nearest contemporary equivalent to Blake, our sweetest-natured screwed-up visionary."-London Evening Standard Alasdair Gray's unique melding of humor and metafiction at once hearken back to Laurence Sterne and sit beside today's literary mash-ups with equal comfort. Old Men in Love is smart, down-to-earth, funny, bawdy, politically inspired, dark, multi-layered, and filled with the kind of intertextual play that Gray delights in. As with Gray's previous novel Poor Things, several partial narratives are presented together. Here the conceit is that they were all discovered in the papers of the late John ... Read more
"Beautiful, inventive, ambitious and nuts."-The Times (London) "Our nearest contemporary equivalent to Blake, our sweetest-natured screwed-up visionary."-London Evening Standard Alasdair Gray's unique melding of humor and metafiction at once hearken back to Laurence Sterne and sit beside today's literary mash-ups with equal comfort. Old Men in Love is smart, down-to-earth, funny, bawdy, politically inspired, dark, multi-layered, and filled with the kind of intertextual play that Gray delights in. As with Gray's previous novel Poor Things, several partial narratives are presented together. Here the conceit is that they were all discovered in the papers of the late John ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Small Beer Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Northampton, United States
ISBN
9781931520690
SKU
V9781931520690
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About Alasdair Gray
Alasdair Gray is one of Scotland's most well-known and acclaimed artists. He is the author of nine novels, including Lanark, 1982 Janine, and the Whitbread and Guardian Prize-winning Poor Things, as well as four collections of stories, two collections of poetry, and three books of nonfiction, including The Book of Prefaces. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland.
Reviews for Old Men in Love
"Like the best of Gray's work, Old Men in Love is funny and profane, but with a shuddering anger to the politics."
Jessa Crispin, NPR "Beautiful, inventive, ambitious and nuts."
The London Times "Our nearest contemporary equivalent to Blake, our sweetest-natured screwed-up visionary."
Evening Standard "Gray, it seems, is unwilling to muck about with a good formula... A work of ... Read more
Jessa Crispin, NPR "Beautiful, inventive, ambitious and nuts."
The London Times "Our nearest contemporary equivalent to Blake, our sweetest-natured screwed-up visionary."
Evening Standard "Gray, it seems, is unwilling to muck about with a good formula... A work of ... Read more