Arresting and provocative, Bull Head tempers raw and at times cruel rural masculinity with graceful prose and breathtaking tenderness to illuminate the plight of rural men in crisis.
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A country-noir vision of rural existence. —The Globe and Mail
A muscular debut. —Publishers Weekly
London itself is as powerful a presence here as the three gay men whose lives it absorbs. —Times Literary Supplement fiction
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isbn 978-1-55152-502-0 • e-isbn 978-1-55152-503-7
isbn 978-1-55152-490-0 • e-isbn 978-1-55152-491-7
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THE LAVA IN MY BONES
FIRST SPRING GRASS FIRE
Barry Webster
Rae Spoon This first book by transgender indie musician Rae Spoon is a candid, powerful story about a young person growing up queer in a strict Pentecostal family in Alberta.
This intense, extravagant magic-realist novel combines elements of fairy tales, horror movies, and romances to create a comic, hallucinatory celebration of excess and sensuality. lamda literary award & ferro-grumley
lambda literary award finalist
award finalist
This moving collection is a story of what we do to find a place, physical or intangible, that we can call home.” —National Post
“An exhuberantly written novel. We need more like it in this country.” —Quill & Quire (starred review)
“A heartbreaking, fictionalized, short-story memoir.” —Ms. Magazine
“A vast and optimistic epic about the transformative power of love.” —National Post fiction
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isbn 978-1-55152-478-8 • e-isbn 978-1-55152-479-5
isbn 978-1-55152-480-1 • e-isbn 978-1-55152-481-8
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BASEMENT OF WOLVES
SHUCK
Daniel Allen Cox
Daniel Allen Cox
“A beautifully and hilariously strange novel … It’s Hollywood Babylon by way of Kafka: delusional, emotional, intriguing, funny and evocatively lush.” —National Post
second printing
Shuck, Daniel Allen Cox’s first novel, is the intense, dazzling diary of Jaeven Marshall, a quasi-homeless hustler trying to manage his reputation as the city’s porn star du jour when he’s not dumpster diving, tweaking, or trying to get published. See also Basement of Wolves (opposite). lambda literary award finalist
In this taut, beautifully layered novel by Lambda Literary and Ferro-Grumley Award finalist Cox (Shuck, Krakow Melt), Michael-David is a paranoid actor who feels that fame has ruined him. When a film shoot with wolves for co-stars takes a troubling turn, he disappears shortly before the premiere and barricades himself in an L.A. hotel, convinced that he’s cursed and must ride it out in hiding.
An invigorating first novel … Cox’s New York City has an off-hand, vibrant authenticity. It glitters and fumes. —Globe and Mail
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isbn 978-1-55152-446-7 • e-isbn 978-1-55152-447-4
isbn 978-1-55152-246-3 • e-isbn 978-1-55152-278-4
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Rent boys, aristocrats, artists, and criminals populate this sweeping novel in which author Jonathan Kemp skillfully interweaves the lives and loves of three very different men in gay London in the 1890s, 1950s, and 1980s. Moodily atmospheric and rich with history, London Triptych is a sexy, resplendent portrait of the politics and pleasures of queer life in one of the world’s most fascinating cities.
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