Review
'1982, Janine has a verbal energy, an intensity of vision that has mostly been missing from the English novel since D. H. Lawrence.' New York Times
Product Description
An unforgettably challenging book about power and powerlessness, men and women, masters and servants, small countries and big countries, Alasdair Gray's exploration of the politics of pornography has lost none of its power to shock. Disliked by some and praised by others, 1982 Janine is a searing portrait of male need and inadequacy, as explored via the lonely sexual fantasies of Jock McLeish, failed husband, lover and business man. Yet there is hope here, too, and the humour (if black) and the imaginative and textual energy of the narrative achieves its own kind of redemption in the end.
About the Author
ALSADAIR GRAY was born in Glasgow in 1934 and studied at Glasgow School of Art. His first novel, Lanark, was published by Canongate to critical acclaim. Widely recognised as a major modern novelist Gray's fiction has been translated into more than a dozen languages throughout the world.
