Suzette Mayr: The Sleeping Car Porter

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Cover: 9781552454589 | The Sleeping Car Porter | Suzette Mayr | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2022

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"The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a gay man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two ways. Affecting, imaginative, and visceral enough that you'll feel the rocking of the train, The Sleeping Car Porter is a stunning accomplishment. Baxter's name isn't George. But it's 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter on a train that crisscrosses the country. So when the passengers call him George, he has to just smile and nod and act invisible. What he really wants is to go to dentistry school, but he'll have to save up a lot of nickel and dime tips to get there, so he puts up with "George." On this particular trip out west, the passengers are more unruly than usual, especially when the train is stalled for two extra days; their secrets start to leak out and blur with the sleep-deprivation hallucinations Baxter is having. When he finds a naughty postcard of two gay men, Baxter's memories and longings are reawakened; keeping it puts his job in peril, but he can't part with the postcard or his thoughts of Edwin Drew, Porter Instructor."--

Über den Autor

Suzette Mayr is the author of six novels including her most recent, The Sleeping Car Porter, winner of the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Award, the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction, and the
City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. The novel was also shortlisted for the inaugural
Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, and the Republic of Consciousness Prize (US and Canada).
Mayr’s other novels have won the ReLit Award and City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize,
and been nominated for the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book in the Canada-Caribbean
Region, the Writers' Guild of Alberta's Best First Book and Best Novel Awards, and the Ferro- Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction. Mayr has done interdisciplinary work with Calgary theatre company Theatre Junction, and visual artists Lisa Brawn and Geoff Hunter. She has also published articles in journals such as Horror Studies, Studies in Canadian Literature, and The Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. She is a former President of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta. Mayr teaches Creative Writing at the University of Calgary, and is a Killam Laureate.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	224
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781552454589
ISBN-10:	1552454584
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Mayr, Suzette
Hersteller:	Coach House Books
Maße:	207 x 130 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Suzette Mayr
Erscheinungsdatum:	27.09.2022
Gewicht:	0,262 kg

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