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  Old Men in Love: John Tunnock's Posthumous Papers (Hardback) Edited by Alasdair Gray, Introduction by Sara Sim-Jaegar

  

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  Short Description for Old Men in LoveA fantastic layered novel of stories within stories set in Athens, Florence, Somerset, and Glasgow.
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  • Publisher: Big Mouth House
  • Published: 17 June 2010
  • Format: Hardback 311 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Fantasy | Historical Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781931520690 ISBN 10: 1931520690
  • Sales rank: 638,472

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Full description for Old Men in Love

• "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 Tunnock, a retired Glasgow teacher who started a number of novels in settings as varied as Periclean Athens, Renaissance Florence, Victorian Somerset, and Britain under New Labour. This is the first US edition (updated with the author's corrections from the UK edition) of a novel that British critics lauded as one of the best of Gray's long career. Beautifully printed in two colors throughout and featuring Gray's trademark strong design, "Old Men in Love" will stand out from everything else on the shelf. Fifty percent is fact and the rest is possible, but it must be read to be believed. 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.