Mr. Loverman "--Huffington Post"Evaristo crafts a colorful look at a unique character confronting social normativity with a well-tuned voice and a resonant humanity.Winner of the Ferro-Grumley Awa
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| Title | : | Mr. Loverman |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.64 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 161775272X |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 300 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-01 |
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Editorial : From Booklist Barrington Walker is a 74-year-old transplanted Antiguan living in Hackney, London, and wrestling with a late-life crisis. For more than 20 years, he has pondered leaving his profoundly unhappy wife, Carmel, for his lover and childhood friend, Morris de la Roux. Barry is a dapper dresser, lover of Shakespeare, wise investor, and shrewd observer of the human condition. But he is unable to reconcile his own inner conflicts and come to account for what his actions and inactions have cost his wife and his lover. Can he do it this time, with his daughters more than grown up? Carmel herself is obviously dissatisfied with the marriage, giving Barry an ultimatum as she journeys back to Antigua to see her dying father. She is fed up with his weekends of drinking and carousing with, she thinks, women. He is fed up with her clutch of churchy, judgmental friends so critical of him. In this vibrant novel, Evaristo draws wonderful character portraits of complex individuals as well as t
Winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction"Evaristo's confident control of the language, her vibrant use of humor, rhythm and poetry, and the realistic mix of Caribbean patois with both street and the Queen's Englishfix characters in the reader's mind."--New York Times Sunday Book ReviewA Top Ten Favorite of the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table's 2015 Over the Rainbow List"As a writer at the Guardian once proclaimed, if you don't know Evaristo's work, you shouldthe novel proves to be revolutionary in its honest portrayal of gay menand Evaristo's writing is both intelligible and compelling."--Library Journal (starred review)"The writing is poetic, the characters are realistic and all sides are well portrayed."--Huffington Post"Evaristo crafts a colorful look at a unique character confronting social normativity with a well-tuned voice and a resonant humanity."--P
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