{"product_id":"9781931520690","title":"Old Men in Love: John Tunnock's Posthumous Papers","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Beautiful, inventive, ambitious and nuts.”— \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Our nearest contemporary equivalent to Blake, our sweetest-natured screwed-up visionary.”— \u003ci\u003eLondon Evening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlasdair 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. \u003ci\u003eOld Men in Love\u003c\/i\u003e is smart, down-to-earth, funny, bawdy, politically inspired, dark, multi-layered, and filled with the kind of intertextual play that Gray delights in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs with Gray’s previous novel \u003ci\u003ePoor Things\u003c\/i\u003e , 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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, \u003ci\u003eOld Men in Love\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlasdair Gray\u003c\/b\u003e is one of Scotland’s most well-known and acclaimed artists. He is the author of nine novels, including \u003ci\u003eLanark\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003e1982 Janine\u003c\/i\u003e , and the Whitbread and Guardian Prize–winning \u003ci\u003ePoor Things\u003c\/i\u003e , as well as four collections of stories, two collections of poetry, and three books of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Prefaces\u003c\/i\u003e . He lives in Glasgow, Scotland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Beer Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061000978672,"sku":"9781931520690","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781931520690_p0.jpg?v=1763638827","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781931520690","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}