<DIV><p>&ldquo;Beautiful, inventive, ambitious and nuts.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>The Times</I> (London)</p> <p>&ldquo;Our nearest contemporary equivalent to Blake, our sweetest-natured screwed-up visionary.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>London Evening Standard</I></p> <p>Alasdair Gray&rsquo;s unique melding of humor and metafiction at once hearken back to Laurence Sterne and sit beside today&rsquo;s literary mash-ups with equal comfort. <I>Old Men in Love</I> is smart, down-to-earth, funny, bawdy, politically inspired, dark, multi-layered, and filled with the kind of intertextual play that Gray delights in.</p> <p>As with Gray&rsquo;s previous novel <I>Poor Things</I>, 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.</p> <p>This is the first US edition (updated with the author&rsquo;s corrections from the UK edition) of a novel that British critics lauded as one of the best of Gray&rsquo;s long career. Beautifully printed in two colors throughout and featuring Gray&rsquo;s trademark strong design, <I>Old Men in Love</I> 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.</p> <p><B>Alasdair Gray</B> is one of Scotland&rsquo;s most well-known and acclaimed artists. He is the author of nine novels, including <I>Lanark</I>, <I>1982 Janine</I>, and the Whitbread and Guardian Prize&ndash;winning <I>Poor Things</I>, as well as four collections of stories, two collections of poetry, and three books of nonfiction, including <I>The Book of Prefaces</I>. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland.</p></DIV>