Bibliograph

Losing it, Alan Cumyn

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Losing it, Alan Cumyn

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Losing it

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

869403662

Responsibility statement

Alan Cumyn

Summary

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. From the Hardcover edition

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