1982, Janine - by Alasdair Gray (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><b>Alasdair Gray's unforgettable second novel. Introduced by Will Self</b><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<i>1982, Janine</i> 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"<br><br>"Alasdair Gray's books have transformed the possibilities of the novel and <i>1982, Janine</i>...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"<br><br>"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"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Since 1981, when <i>Lanark</i> 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."
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