{"product_id":"1982-janine-9781786893963","title":"1982, Janine","description":"Jock McLeish, failed husband, lover and businessman is alone in a hotel room, drinking whisky, fantasizing 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 humor, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince 1981, when \u003ci\u003eLanark\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Canongate, Alasdair Gray has published a great number of books, most of them novels and short stories. In his own words, \"Alasdair Gray is a fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glaswegian pedestrian who has mainly lived by writing and designing books, most of them fiction.\"\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Canongate Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50631326761234,"sku":"9781786893963","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_59b7d1d7-71cf-4e8c-968b-9d9e9c4dfa94.jpg?v=1732769467","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/1982-janine-9781786893963","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}