Love Ruins Everything
- Publisher
- Insomniac Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2011
- Category
- Lesbian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781554830350
- Publish Date
- Oct 2011
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
Award-winning writer Karen X Tulchinsky’s debut novel, Love Ruins Everything (originally published in 1998 by Press Gang), follows the adventures Nomi Rabinovitch, a sweet but insecure and bumbling butch lesbian as she recovers from a broken heart and negotiates her way back into the dating scene in San Francisco. Summoned back home to Toronto to attend her mother’s surprise second wedding, Nomi is drawn into the AIDS activism of her gay, HIV-positive cousin, Henry and the girl she lusts after and might grow to love, Julie Sakamoto as they battle to expose uncomfortable truths about the origins of the epidemic. As in real life, humour, romance and tragedy are woven through this warm, funny and thought-provoking portrayal of queer life at the end of the last century. Insomniac Press is proud to present this new edition for a new generation of readers to enjoy.
About the author
Aren X. Tulchinsky is the award-winning author of Love Ruins Everything (Press Gang Publishers), a novel that was named one of the top ten books of 1998 by the Bay Area Reporter and has been translated into German and French; its sequel, Love and Other Ruins (Polestar); and In Her Nature (Women’s Press), a collection of short fiction which won the 1996 VanCity Book Prize.His screenplays have been short-listed in the Praxis Screenwriting competition and the Los Angeles-based Chesterfield Film Company Writer’s Project. He is a graduate of the prestigious Canadian Film Centre’s Professional Screenwriting Programme, where he wrote two feature-length screenplays and a short film, Straight in the Face, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and was broadcast on Showcase TV.Tulchinksy has written for numerous magazines and newspapers, including the Vancouver Sun, Georgia Straight, Now Magazine, Xtra West, Canadian Screenwriter and the National Post, and has taught creative writing at Langara College and Screenwriting at the UBC Writing Centre.
Editorial Reviews
Filled with life and cram-jammed with gorgeous prose, Tulchinsky's tragicomic tale heralds the arrival of a singular voice Toronto Star"Tulchinsky writes adeptly and with passion... and she has something important to say." Globe and Mail
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