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Horse Named Sorrow (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780299289706)
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xSelection, 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.
Author: Trebor Healey
ISBN-10: 0299289702
ISBN-13: 9780299289706
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 10/23/2012
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.10d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist
Award: Triangle Awards - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2013 pg. 38
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.
Author: Trebor Healey
ISBN-10: 0299289702
ISBN-13: 9780299289706
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 10/23/2012
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.10d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist
Award: Triangle Awards - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2013 pg. 38
By Trebor Healey
xTrebor Healey is author of the novel Through It Came Bright Colors, a selection of the InsightOut Book Club and the winner of both the Violet Quill Award and the Publishing Triangle's Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction. His other books include the novel Faun, the short-story collection A Perfect Scar, and a volume of poetry, Sweet Son of Pan.
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