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Queer Fiction (by Zoe Whittall)
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Zoe Whittall is the author of two literary novels - the Lambda award-winning Holding Still For As Long As Possible and Bottle Rocket Hearts. She has published one short novel for adults with low literacy skills called The Middle Ground (Orca Books, 2010.) She won the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Award in 2008. Her poetry books include The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life,The Emily Valentine Poems and Precordial Thump. She edited the anthology Geeks, Misfits & Outlaws in 2003. She lives in Toronto. http://zoewhittall.blogspot.com/
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Stories
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In this follow-up to his acclaimed debut story collection, Mommy Daddy Baby, Greg Kearney continues his investiga- tion into the lives of average people forced to modify their world views in the face of devastating – or at the very least, mortifying – new circumstances.A middle-aged, HIV+ gay man, deformed by the side effects of protease inhibi …
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Cumberland
edition:Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2003 Amazon/Books In Canada First Novel Award
A stunning first novel full of empathy, marked by an astounding maturity of insight. Cumberland is both a place and a state of mind; it is a small-town story of longing and loss in the manner of David Adams Richards. It is an exploration of loneliness and the fear of loneliness in li …
