Selection, Over the Rainbow Project, GLBT Round Table of the
American Library Association Finalist, General Fiction, Lambda
Literary Awards Winner, Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction,
Publishing Triangle Winner, Duggins outstanding Mid-Career novelist
Award, Lambda Literary Foundation
Award-winning novelist Trebor Healey depicts San Francisco in the
1980s and '90s in poetic prose that is both ribald and poignant,
and a crossing into the American West that is dreamy, mythic, and
visionary.
When troubled twenty-one-year-old Seamus Blake meets the strong
and self-possessed Jimmy (just arrived in San Francisco by bicycle
from his hometown in Buffalo, New York), he feels his life may
finally be taking a turn for the better. But the ensuing romance
proves short-lived as Jimmy dies of an AIDS-related illness. The
grieving Seamus is obliged to keep a promise to Jimmy: "Take me
back the way I came."
And so Seamus sets out by bicycle on a picaresque journey with the
ashes, hoping to bring them back to Buffalo. He meets truck
drivers, waitresses, college kids, farmers, ranchers, Marines, and
other travelers--each one giving him a new perspective on his own
life and on Jimmy's death. When he meets and becomes involved with
a young Native American man whose mother has recently died,
Seamus's grief and his story become universal and redemptive.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Wisconsin Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2016 |
| First published: |
October 2012 |
| Authors: |
Trebor Healey
|
| Dimensions: |
217 x 147 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
| Pages: |
275 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-299-28970-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
| LSN: |
0-299-28970-2 |
| Barcode: |
9780299289706 |
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