num_pages: 352
description: An unforgettably challenging book about power and powerlessness, men and women, masters and servants, small countries and big countries, Alasdair Gray's exploration of the politics of pornography has lost none of its power to shock. 1982 Janine is a searing portrait of male need and inadequacy, as explored via the lonely sexual fantasies of Jock McLeish, failed husband, lover and businessman.Yet there is hope here, and the humour (if black) and the imaginative and textual energy of the narrative achieves its own kind of redemption in the end.
language: English
title: 1982, Janine
titlecomplete: 1982, Janine
characters: Jock McLeish
genres: 20th Century, Book Club, Sexuality, Novels, Literary Fiction, Literature, Scotland, British Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 999
places: Scotland
publisher: Canongate Classics