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...

Author: Gray Alasdair
Year of publication: 2009
Genre: Modern prose
Number of pages: 334
Reading time: 5 h. 34 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
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