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1982, Janine (Paperback)

by Alasdair Gray (Author)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (5 Aug 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140179275
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140179279
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 648,361 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This already dated novel is set inside the head of an ageing, divorced, alcoholic, insomniac supervisor of security installations who is tippling in a Scottish hotel. Though full of depressing memories and propaganda for the Conservative Party, it is mainly a sado-masochistic fetishistic fantasy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Oh, What a Night!, 8 Mar 2004
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This review is from: 1982, Janine (Canongate Classics) (Paperback)
This inventive novel takes place over one difficult night in the life of Jock McLeish, security systems engineer: a night which brings him to the brink of suicide. It is an evocative mosaic, mingling the sadistic fantasies that fail to distract Jock from the bitter memories of his own life - poor decisions, casual cruelties, ill-judged liaisons - and his musings on the failings of his beloved Scotland. Eventually, a kind of resolution is reached.

It is all done in Gray's fluent and adventurous style. Fans of his other works should not hesitate; newcomers to his dark, Gothic fictions could happily(?) start here.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Scotland, bleak and sad, 5 Oct 1999
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Gray's great second book is much better than the famous Lanark; though quite similar in some of its themes it is tighter, funnier and works more effectively. It concerns an aging security operative, desperately lonely and alcoholic, who is reviewing his life in a small Scottish hotel room. Without spoiling the book for anyone (I hope), he "finds himself" when, despairing at all the missed chances in his life he tries to kill himself and enters a dialogue with God. As an atheist this surprises him! A beautiful vignette of what it is to be Scottish, politically and sexually repressed. Replete with pretend literary notes like Lanark (one of several references to Flann O'Brien which Gray acknowledges), this is by far the better book. Sad though.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Great C20th Scottish novels..., 11 Mar 2007
This review is from: 1982, Janine (Hardcover)
...up there with Sunset Song, in my humble opinion (and I should say that the latter, read when I was 14, was the novel for me which made fiction seemt he greatest thing in the world). Far better than Lanark - tighter, more humane, funnier and more serious. A wonder.
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