| Losing It Contributor(s): Cumyn, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0771024894 ISBN-13: 9780771024894 Publisher: McClelland & Stewart OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.4" W x 8.36" (0.75 lbs) 376 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Sometimes those who have the most seem bent on throwing it away. Meet Bob Sterling, a comfortable middle-aged professor, a specialist in the life of Edgar Allan Poe, married to a former student with whom he has a young son. In the space of a week his family, marriage, career, sanity, and life are brought to the brink of ruin in the aftermath of a trip he makes with a student, the intense young poet Sienna Chu, who tweaks into florescence a long-harboured, secret sexual fetish. Then add to the mix the misadventures of his wife's mentally failing mother, a shy night prowler, and Sienna's explosive techno-junkie roommate. Poignant and gritty, tantalizingly erotic, Losing It is a high-wire act that plays out as a delicious blend of darkness and humour as it embraces the surprising emotional connections that are made in the midst of life's madness. |