Confluence - Couverture souple

Turner, Alex; Childs, Lucian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1834050413 ISBN 13 : 9781834050416

Editeur : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2026

Synopsis

In 1956, lonely teenager Teddy is drawn to the water and woods surrounding his small town, where he meets bad boy Wade and becomes overwhelmed by his attraction to him. During the rapturous early period of their friendship, the two range over the area's mountains and waterways before falling out after high school over Teddy's sexuality. In the years following their separation, Teddy-now going by Ted-struggles to live openly as a gay man, finding and losing lovers at parties, dance clubs, and cruising spots in a surprisingly wild pre-Stonewall gay Vancouver. He is befriended by a lively crew of eccentrics-a new chosen family-who aid him in finding fulfilment both as a gay man and as an artist. Returning to his hometown nearly a decade later, Ted must decide whether or not to reunite with the one who once meant so much to him: the sexy and mercurial Wade. Confluence is a collaboration between late author Alex Turner and his husband, Lucian Childs. Drawing on his sixty-year history with his beloved West Coast home, Turner wrote much of this beautifully rendered novel before he passed away in 2019. Childs, an award-winning author himself, completed the work, a novel that is simultaneously poetic, humorous, and exuberantly down to earth.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Alex Turner (1940-2019) graduated from the Vancouver School of Art and University of British Columbia and subsequently taught in Toronto at the Art Centre of the Central Technical School. After retirement, Alex turned to fiction, and his short fiction appears in the literary magazine Prairie Fire.

Lucian Childs is a writer whose debut novel-in-stories, Dreaming Home (Biblioasis), won the Fred Kerner Book Award and was shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. He is a contributing editor of Lambda Literary Award finalist Building Fires in the Snow (University of Alaska Press). His work appears in Grain, Ex-Puritan, Prairie Fire, and other publications. He lives in Toronto, ON.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1834050413
• ISBN 13: 9781834050416
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible