Losing It - Couverture souple

Cumyn, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0771024894 ISBN 13 : 9780771024894

Editeur : McClelland & Stewart, 2002

Synopsis

Sometimes those who have the most seem bent on throwing it away. Meet Bob Sterling, a comfortable middle-aged professor, a specialist in the life of Edgar Allan Poe, married to a former student with whom he has a young son. In the space of a week his family, marriage, career, sanity, and life are brought to the brink of ruin in the aftermath of a trip he makes with a student, the intense young poet Sienna Chu, who tweaks into florescence a long-harboured, secret sexual fetish. Then add to the mix the misadventures of his wife’s mentally failing mother, a shy night prowler, and Sienna’s explosive techno-junkie roommate. Poignant and gritty, tantalizingly erotic, Losing It is a high-wire act that plays out as a delicious blend of darkness and humour as it embraces the surprising emotional connections that are made in the midst of life’s madness.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Alan Cumyn’s books include Man of Bone (1998), winner of the Ottawa-Carleton Book Award (as it was then known) and a finalist for the Trillium Book Award in 1999; Burridge Unbound (2000), which won the Ottawa Book Award and was a finalist for The Giller Prize; Losing It (2001); and The Sojourn (2003). His children’s book The Secret Life of Owen Skye was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature (2002).

Alan Cumyn lives in Ottawa.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McClelland & Stewart
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0771024894
• ISBN 13: 9780771024894
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376
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• Personne responsable: non disponible