Author: Betsy Warland. Published by Caitlin Press Inc., Halfmoon Bay, BC., 2016, 1st Edition. SIGNED and dedicated by the Author. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with beautiful fold-out-style covers. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8 x 5.5 inch, 220 pages.
“Warland covers vast ground, moving swiftly and in a nonlinear fashion from intimate reflections on her most personal relationships, living arrangements, and perspectives on creativity, to matters of broader social and political consequence. A book perhaps without obvious category but not without an important place in Canadian literature, Oscar of Between is a dynamic work of startling insight.” -Reviewed by Dana Hansen, Room Magazine
Taking the name Oscar, the author embarks on an intimate, nine-year quest by telling her story as “a person of between.” As Oscar, she is able to make sense of her self and the culture that shaped her. She traces this experience of in-betweenness from her childhood in the rural Midwest, through to her first queer kiss in 1978, divorce, coming out, writing life. In 1984, she and her lover wrote lesbian erotic love poetry collections in dialogue with one another, the first and only tandem collections on this subject in English Canada. After the two split, she experienced years of unacknowledged exclusion from a community in which she thought she belonged.
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1st Edition & Signed by Author
ISBN: 9781987915167
GC&C Stock #2731
