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OverviewA dazzlingly original and expansive tale about the possibilities of storytelling from the celebrated Scottish author of Poor Things and Lanark. Old Men in Love, like The Arabian Nights, is about a storyteller whose stories contain other stories. In his trademark way, Alasdair Gray playfully blends narrative styles and locations; Periclean Athens, Renaissance Florence, Victorian Somerset mingle with Britain under the New Labour Party, viewed from the West End of Glasgow. More than half is fact and the rest possible, but it must be read to be believed. 'A necessary genius' ALI SMITH 'One of the brightest intellectual and creative lights Scotland has known in modern times' NICOLA STURGEON 'The greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott' ANTHONY BURGESS Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alasdair GrayPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.255kg ISBN: 9780747593836ISBN 10: 0747593833 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 05 October 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews'A great writer, perhaps the greatest living in Britain today' Will Self 'He is our nearest contemporary equivalent to Blake, our sweetest-natured screwed-up visionary' Evening Standard Author InformationAuthor Website: http://www.bloomsbury.com/Authors/details.aspx?tpid=573Alasdair Gray is the author of, among other things, the Whitbread and Guardian Prize-winning novel Poor Things and the story-collection Ten Tales Tall and True. Tab Content 6Author Website: http://www.bloomsbury.com/Authors/details.aspx?tpid=573Countries AvailableAll regions |