📗 Libro en inglés NOVA SCOTIA HOUSE

A work of genius Philip Hoare One of the best things I ve read in many many years Hilton Als Beautifully provocative the most compelling exploration of life death love and resistance that I ve read for a very long time Eimear McBrideA story of loss and grief sex and love and refusing to relinquish dreamsHe said he would understand if it was too much for me that I could leave him that I was young I should be living I said to him I am living Johnny Grant faces stark life decisions Seeking answers he looks back to his relationship with Jerry Field When they met nearly thirty years ago Johnny was 19 Jerry was 45 They fell in love and made a life on their own terms in Jerry s flat 1 Nova Scotia House Johnny is still there today but Jerry is gone and so is the world they knew As Johnny s mind travels between then and now he begins to remember stories of Jerry s youth of experiments in living of radical philosophies of the many possibilities of love sex and friendship before the AIDS crisis devastated the queer community Slowly he realizes what he must do next and attempts to restore ways of being that could be lost forever Nova Scotia House takes us to the heart of a relationship a community and an era It is both a love story and a la