Mr. Loverman
Subtitle: a novel
By: Bernardine Evaristo
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781617752728; 9781617752896
Subjects: Social life and customs; Fiction; Families; Older gay men; Dysfunctional families
Other titles: Mister Loverman; Mr. Lover man
Description: "Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney, London, for years. A flamboyant character with a fondness for William Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father, grandfather--and also secretly gay. With an abundance of laugh-out-loud humor and wit, Mr. Loverman explodes cultural myths and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves.  His deeply religious and disappointed wife, Carmel, thinks he sleeps with other women. When their marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington wants to divorce Carmel and live with Morris, but after a lifetime of fear and deception, will he manage to break away? With an abundance of laugh-out-loud humor and wit, Mr. Loverman explodes cultural myths and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves"--Amazon.com, viewed February 21, 2014.
Notes: "Originally published in the United Kingdom by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin in 2013"--Title page verso.