1982, Janine

Jock McLeish, failed husband, lover and businessman is alone in a hotel room, drinking whisky, fantasising about sex and contemplating suicide. As he tries to distance himself from reality, his lonely, alcohol-fuelled fantasies are interrupted by a flood of memories, reminding him of his own shortcomings. An unforgettably imaginative book, deeply experimental in its form and charged with a dark humour, 1982, Janine is a searing portrait of male need and inadequacy. Gray's exploration of politics, religion, powerlessness and pornography has lost none of its power to shock and entertain.

Product details

• Authors: Alasdair Gray
• Assisted by: Will Self (Introduction), Self Will (Introduction)
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781786893963
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-396-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Series: The Canons; The canons
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary