Pervatory
- Publisher
- Coach House Books
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2022
- Category
- General, Literary, City Life
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781770567047
- Publish Date
- Oct 2022
- List Price
- $14.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781552454374
- Publish Date
- Oct 2022
- List Price
- $21.95
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Description
A novel about Berlin: a city for artists and libertines, a perfect place to find love and madness.
When he tired of Toronto’s insular scene, art critic Martin Heather fled to Berlin, where he tried to sleep his way through the entire population of gay men. And then he met Alexandar, who began to tutor Martin in increasingly violent sex – and in love.
Pervatory is a series of journal entries about Martin and Alexandar’s relationship. But interjections from the present, where Martin has been institutionalized, suggest that the hints we get of his increasing instability and obsession with the idea that his apartment is haunted by an evil spirit may have led to something dire …
RM Vaughan was an astute art critic, a dazzling poet, and an important queer activist. His untimely death in October 2020 was a tremendous loss to the queer and literary communities. This novel is what he left for us.
About the author
RM Vaughan is a Toronto-?based writer and video artist originally from New Brunswick. His books include the poetry collections A Selection of Dazzling Scarves and Invisible to Predators, the novel A Quilted Heart, the play Camera, Woman and the novel Spells (ECW). Vaughan was the 1994-?95 Playwright in Residence at Buddies in Bad Times, and he writes about art and culture for a wide range of publications.
