Beautifully designed by the author and printed in two colors: you have to handle this book to believe how beautiful it is. You can see the title page and first couple of chapters here.
Small Beer Press are delighted to publish the first US edition (updated with the author’s corrections from the UK edition) of Alasdair Gray’s latest novel, Old Men in Love: John Tunnock’s Posthumous Papers, a unique melding of humor and metafiction that at once hearkens back to Laurence Sterne yet sits 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. Fifty percent is fact and the rest is possible, but it must be read to be believed.
(reproduit du site Web de l'éditeur, disponible ici : http://smallbeerpress.com/books/2010/06/08/old-men-in-love-john-tunnocks...)