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Dr Sad : a month and a day / David Bateman.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.B378 D7 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bateman, David, 1956- author.
- Series:
- Brave & brilliant series ; no. 18.
- Brave & brilliant series, 2371-7238 ; no. 18
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay men--Fiction.
- Gay men.
- Middle-aged men--Fiction.
- Middle-aged men.
- Teachers--Fiction.
- Teachers.
- Kamloops (B.C.)--Fiction.
- Kamloops (B.C.).
- British Columbia--Kamloops.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 310 pages ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Doctor Sad
- Place of Publication:
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Discover the difference between living a life and simply enduring on in this cross-campus, cross-country comedy of manners, queerness, poetry and HIV. Stephen is middle-aged. He's gay. He's content, except when he isn't. Stephen is a teacher. He's a poet. He has a new teaching job in Kamloops, BC. Stephen has HIV. DR SAD is the story of one man's journey across Canada and through his diagnosis. It is the story of the distance between queer urban spaces and a small campus in a small city in small-town BC. It is the story of discovering the self within the world, and the world within the self, of discovering the difference between living a life and simply enduring one. This is a tragicomic cross-campus, cross-country romp that believes in the power of romance. Weaving together narratives of past and present, of Toronto's Gay Village and the streets of Kamloops, BC this lively and dynamic semi-autobiographical novel dives deeply into gender and queerness, class and privilege, and the realities of aging. It is a dynamic and engaging hybrid, stylistically daring while remaining intimate and human. Leaping through time and mixing the playfully serious with the seriously playful, DR SAD blends poetry with prose and finds the humour in despair in one complete, glittering tragedy of triumph."-- Provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bateman, David, 1956- Dr Sad.
- ISBN:
- 9781773851037
- 1773851039
- OCLC:
- 1151354725
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