Im So Glad We Had This Time Together
kr268.68
Im So Glad We Had This Time Together
Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of four children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970s in a blue-collar suburb of Toronto. Despite their working-class milieu, the Vellekoops are devoted to art, music, and film, and they instill a deep reverence for the arts in young Maurice-except for literature. He’d much rather watch Cher and Carol Burnett on TV than read a book. He also loves playing with his girlfriends’ Barbie dolls and helping his Mum in her hair salon, which she runs out of the basement of their house. In short, he is really, really gay. Which is a huge problem, because the family is part of the Christian Reformed Church, a strict Calvinist sect. Needless to say, the church is intolerant of homosexuality. Though she loves her son deeply, Maurice’s mother, Ann, cannot accept him, setting the course for a long estrangement. Vellekoop struggles through all of this until he graduates from high school and is accepted into the Ontario College of Art in the early 1980s. Here he finds a welcoming community of bohemians, including a brilliant, flamboyantly gay professor who encourages him to come out. But just as he’s dipping his toes into the waters of gay sex and love, a series of romantic disasters, followed by a violent attack, sets him back severely. And then the shadow of the AIDS era descends. I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together is an enthralling portrait of what it means to be true to yourself, to learn to forgive, and to be an artist.
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Varenummer9780307908735
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Opprinnelsesland :USA
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FormatHardcover
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SerieIm So Glad We Had This Time Together
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ForfattereMaurice Vellekoop
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SjangerBiografi, Dokumentar og Fakta og LGBT
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IllustratørMaurice Vellekoop
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Antall Sider496
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UtgiverPantheon Books
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Lanseringsdato (dd.mm.yyyy)28.02.2024
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AldersgruppeVoksen
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IllustrasjonerCOLOR ILLUSTRATIONS
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Avansert FormatHardcover
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SpråkEngelsk
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LeverandørstatusTilgjengelig
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