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The Age of Cities
Equal parts bildungsroman and purported literary artifact, The Age of Cities is -really about the age of innocence. A manuscript is discovered inside a hollowed-out home economics textbook: it is the story of a young man from a small town who comes to the big city at the height of the Cold War. His accidental discovery of a gay -subculture—culminating in a feverish, dreamlike initiation—pushes him irrevocably toward crisis. The Age of Cities is about discovery, loss, and the contemporary “closet” where stories lie hidden from view.
From Up River and for One Night Only
Meet The Gorgons The Legionnaires Chicken Treblinka The Statistics . . . Meet Dee, Gordyn, Em, and Jay, indecisive members of the greatest New Wave band to ever spring from River Bend City. Before they graduate from high school and flee a mill town that's seen better days, these ambitious friends (two sets of siblings) aim to make something from nothing as a test-run for planned careers of total glamour in New York City. Set between Labour Day 1980 and a Battle of the Bands contest in February 1981, From Up River and for One Night Only traces the unsure but determined steps of the gang's hopeful act of creation. The darkly comic and autobiographical story memorably captures the detours, setbacks, compromises, ethical quandaries, and illicit opportunities encountered along the twisty highway to the band's fifteen-and-a half minutes of fame.
My Two-Faced Luck
1990. Transferred to Horsetail Institution and mortally ill, an inmate devotes his remaining weeks to a project--recording his history on cassette tape. The account describes a curious queer journey that began in rural New England in 1927. Meditating on ruined family, illicit lovers, drunken parties, a tragic marriage, and strange terms of employment, the American inmate strives to wring sense--meaning--from a life now winding down in River Bend City, British Columbia... a few years after a jury found him guilty of murdering his boss, a geriatric San Francisco socialite. Decades later, the recipient of those forgotten cassettes faces the dissolution of her long marriage. Seeking respite from wintry thoughts, the former prison nurse listens to the inmate's words, eventually shaping the jumbled reminiscences into a memoir. Speculation based on a cruise ship murder in 1985 and the final volume of the River Bend Trilogy (The Age of Cities; From Up River and For One Night Only), My Two-Faced Luck captures a singular voice as it divulges startling facts behind a rough passage through the upheavals of the twentieth century.
This Location of Unknown Possibilities
Script changes, on-set mishaps, and after hours misadventures guarantee that Marta, an English professor, and Jake, a project executive, won't soon forget the week they share filming in the Okanagain Valley.
American Hunks
The icon of the muscular American male from 1860 to 1970.
Oldness ; Or, The Last-ditch Efforts of Marcus O
Meet Marcus O, a man who's feeling older but not much wiser as he sets jaded eyes on that last vigorous stretch before the dreaded sunset years. With the approach of the terminal semester of a long-winded career, he's wondering "What next?" and closing down leftover business. First, there's Judaea, a workplace nemesis inspiring Marcus' visions of reprisal. And there's L'Oréal Zhang, a style-conscious student and frequent visitor to Marcus' university office whose shallow interests seem calculated to aggravate him alone. The co-owner of a geriatric apartment building (with brother Benjamin, another thorn in his side), Marcus occupies his nights at home with snacks and screens. There, he scours the Web for romance advice while hatching answers to profile questions generated by Venerati, a dating site for seniors he's recently joined. Set in the metropolitan west coast in a near future where everything is pretty much the same (or maybe a notch worse), Oldness; or, the Last-Ditch Efforts of Marcus O dazzles with a satiric portrait of a vexed man in a complicated time and place whose reality could be just over the horizon.
National Plots
Fiction that reconsiders, challenges, reshapes, and/or upholds national narratives of history has long been an integral aspect of Canadian literature. Works by writers of historical fiction (from early practitioners such as John Richardson to contemporary figures such as Alice Munro and George Elliott Clarke) propose new views and understandings of Canadian history and individual relationships to it. Critical evaluation of these works sheds light on the complexity of these depictions. The contributors in National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada critically examine texts with subject matter ranging from George Vancouver’s west coast explorations to the eradication of t...
Understanding Beryl Bainbridge
"In this introduction to prolific British novelist Beryl Bainbridge, Brett Josef Grubisic provides a biographical sketch of the writer, discussion of her motivations and techniques, and a detailed survey of her fiction that places the works in the traditions of British black comedy, social novels, and historical fiction. In approaching her works, Grubisic maps Bainbridge's movement from social to historical novels, beginning with the comic historicism of Young Adolf and continuing to her most recent fiction, The Birthday Boys, Every Man for Himself, Master Georgie, and According to Queeney. Grubisic holds that in portraying historical events through a variety of narrative techniques or from oblique vantage points, Bainbridge's latest novels partially ally themselves with the style and ideological concerns of literary postmodernism while still recalling the defining view of hardship established in her youth."--BOOK JACKET.
Carnal Nation
It has long been held that the early Labour movement owed a debt to Nonconformity, but relatively little attention has been paid to this relationship during the interwar years. "The Labour Party and the Free Churches 1918-1939" explores how, during this period, the party formalized, replaced the Liberals as the main party of the Left in Britain, and created a boundary between itself and the recently formed Communist Party. Peter Catterall demonstrates the influence on political Nonconfirmity on these developments, through the ideological, political and electoral relationship between the Free Churches and the Labour Party. In contributing to the rethinking of the relationship between state, society and socialism, this book makes an original contribution to the history of 20th-century Britain and in particular to the history of the Labour Party and of the Churches, showing that the Labour Party's relationship with the Free Churches contributed a distinctive ethical character to British socialism.
Contra/diction
A collection of stories by queer male writers from the U.S. and Canada.
