The freedom in American songs
Subtitle: stories
By: Kathleen Winter
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9781927428733
Subjects: Short stories
Description: Meet Xavier Boland, the untouchable cross-dresser, who walks loose and carefree as an old Broadway tune. Meet Miss Penrice, a lost old woman forced by wartime to parent a child for the first time. Meet a Zamboni mechanic turned funeral porteur, Madame Poirer's lapdog (and its chastity belt), a congregation of hard-singing, sex-obsessed Pentecostals, and more. With The Freedom in American Songs, Kathleen Winter brings her unusual sensuality, lyrically rendered settings, and subversive humour to bear on a new story collection about modern loneliness, small-town gay teens, catastrophic love, and the holiness of ordinary life.
Notes: Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: A plume of white smoke --; title: The Christmas room --; title: Every waking moment --; title: The freedom in American song --; title: Of the fountain --; title: You seem a little bit sad --; title: The zamboni mechanic's blood --; title: Anhinga --; title: Madame Poirer's dog --; title: Flyaway --; title: Knives --; title: His brown face through the flowers --; title: Handsome devil --; title: Darling's kingdom.