In one person : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307361783 (hc.)
- ISBN: 0307361780 (hc.)
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Physical Description:
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425 p. ; 25 cm. - Publisher: Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, c2012.
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Subject: | Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction Bisexuality -- Fiction Bisexual men -- Fiction Novelists -- Fiction Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. Literary fiction. |
Available copies
- 15 of 16 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
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- 0 current holds with 16 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | Irvi (Text) | 33294001831882 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
" 'In one person' takes the reader along a dizzying path: from a private school in Vermont in the 1950s to the gay bars of Madrid's Chueca district, from the Vienna State Opera to the wrestling mat at the New York Athletic Club. It takes in the ways that cross-dressing passes from one generation to the next in a family, the trouble with amateur performances of Ibsen, and what happens if you fall in love at first sight while reading Madame Bovary on a troop transport ship, in the middle of an Atlantic storm. But this is also a heartfelt, intimate book about one person, a novelist named William Francis Dean. By his side as he tells his own story, we follow Billy on a fifty-year journey toward himself, meeting some uniquely unconventional characters along the way. For all his long and short relationships with both men and women, Billy remains somehow alone, never quite able to fit into society's neat categories. And as Billy searches for the truth about himself, 'In one person' grows into an unforgettable call for compassion in a world marked by failures of love and failures of understanding ...--Publisher.