The latest addition to our literary fiction by LGBT writers who include Ivan E. Coyote, Amber Dawn, and Daniel Allen Cox.

Patrick Roscoe was one of Canada’s most acclaimed writers during the 1990s, publishing six novels and story collections. This story collection marks his first new book in thirteen years, but his first to be distributed in the US.

Roscoe is well-known in Canadian literary circles for his beautifully crafted stories. This book is divided into sections that are set in Spain, Africa, small-town Canada, and the west coast of America; while the subject matter is only at times explicitly gay, a gay sensibility is evident in the stories’ theatrical magic-realism and in characters who are decidedly outsiders—lonely children, spiritual women, damaged men.

Patrick has a compelling personal story: born on the Spanish island of Formentera, he spent his childhood in Tanzania and was educated in England and Canada before leaving home at sixteen. He led a nomadic existence for many years, from the streets of California to rural Mexico and Spain, before becoming undone by addiction and mental illness; now healthy after many dark years, he has returned to writing.

Sell as a literary title to general accounts; as gay to LGBT accounts.

© 2013 Arsenal Pulp Press (E-bok): 9781551525228

Utgivningsdatum

E-bok: 14 oktober 2013