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If I had the wings : short stories / Helen Klonaris.
Van Pelt Library PS3611.L66 A6 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klonaris, Helen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homosexuality--Caribbean Area--Fiction.
- Homosexuality.
- Gay people--Caribbean Area--Fiction.
- Gay people.
- Lesbians--Caribbean Area--Fiction.
- Lesbians.
- Caribbean Area.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 166 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Leeds, England : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2017.
- Summary:
- "Growing up gay is fraught with constraints and even danger in the small Greek-Bahamian community that feels its traditional culture and religious pieties are under threat. The main characters in Helen Klonaris's poetic, inventive and sometimes transgressive collection of short stories confront this reality as part of their lives. Klonaris focuses closely on family relationships, in particular on the difficult and sometimes abusive connections between fathers and daughters. Sharply realised as individuals, her characters are also very much part of the wider changes in Bahamian society, and show the interplay between fear, repression, hypocrisy and resistance in the relations between the state, the churches and the LGBT community." --back cover.
- Contents:
- Flies
- Cowboy
- If I had the wings
- Ghost children
- Pick up girl
- Crack in the wall
- Weeds
- The dreamers.
- ISBN:
- 9781845233464
- 1845233468
- OCLC:
- 964931454
- Publisher Number:
- 99976038873
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