Old Men in Love

A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

ALASDAIR GRAY, born in 1934, is a painter certificated by Glasgow Art School. Unable to live by one art he became jack of several and Old Men In Love is his 19th book. In The Dublin Independent Lawrence Sterne says it will swim down the gutter of time with the legation of Moses and A Tale of A Tub. Says Urquhart of Cromarty in The Scots Magazine, Relish the cheese — like brain that feeds you with these trifling jollities. Dr Samuel Johnson in The Rambler writes, Never has penury of knowledge and vulgarity of sentiment been so happily disguised. Sidney Workman in the Epilogue says This book should not be read. In this blurb Alasdair Gray writes Old Men in Love is bound to sell well because everyone now feels old after 25, so all youngsters are interested in what comes next.