A Boy at the Edge of the World: Volume 146 (Essential Prose Series) - Softcover

Yeh, David Kingston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1771832487 ISBN 13: 9781771832489

Publisher: Guernica Editions Inc, 2018

Synopsis

Meet Daniel Garneau, your average gay hockey player from small-town Ontario. After moving to Toronto to attend university, Daniel embarks on a series of misadventures both comic and tragic, as he navigates the pitfalls of dating and relationships while juggling the needs of his eccentric family and newfound friends. A Boy at the Edge of the World is a coming-of-age novel that explores the variegations of sex, intimacy, and queer desire. It is both a rollicking dramedy and a philosophical reflection. In the end, Daniel's story is the story of each of us: our universal search for love and family -- at the edge of the world.

About this title

About the Author

Born and raised in Kingston, Ontario, David K. Yeh moved to Toronto in 1993. Since 2004, he has worked as a counselor with LGBTQ youth. He has written four plays produced in Toronto, and has sold numerous short stories. A Boy at the Edge of the World is his first novel.

From the Back Cover

Meet the Garneau boys, triplets from small-town Ontario. Daniel the "eldest" is gay, and moves to Toronto with his best friend Karen to attend university. Eventually, he meets David, a bike mechanic whose Catholic Italian mother talks to her dead husbands. Their chemistry is immediate, but Daniel is still drawn to his ex-boyfriend Marcus, a performance artist whose grandfather was a book-burning Nazi. A Boy at the Edge of the World is a rollicking dramedy that explores the compulsive and (ultimately) universal human pursuit of intimacy, sex, and love.

Edition details

• Publisher: Guernica Editions Inc
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1771832487
• ISBN 13: 9781771832489
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360