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A minor chorus : a novel
- Title
- A minor chorus : a novel / Billy-Ray Belcourt.
- Author
- Belcourt, Billy-Ray
- Publication
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2022]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 22-2344 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 162 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief. In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. He is adrift, caught between his childhood on the reservation and this new life of the urban intelligentsia. Billy-Ray Belcourt's unnamed narrator chronicles a series of encounters: a heart-to-heart with fellow doctoral student River over the mounting pressure placed on marginalized scholars; a meeting with Michael, a closeted adult from his hometown whose vulnerability and loneliness punctuate the realities of queer life on the fringe. Amid these conversations, the narrator is haunted by memories of Jack, a cousin caught in the cycle of police violence, drugs, and survival. Jack's life parallels the narrator's own; the possibilities of escape and imprisonment are left to chance with colonialism stacking the odds. A Minor Chorus introduces the dazzling literary voice of a Lambda Literary Award winner and Canadian #1 national best-selling poet to the United States, shining much-needed light on the realities of Indigenous survival"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Novels.
- Call Number
- JFD 22-2344
- ISBN
- 9781324021421
- 132402142X
- LCCN
- 2022027215
- OCLC
- 1294283222
- Author
- Belcourt, Billy-Ray, author.
- Title
- A minor chorus : a novel / Billy-Ray Belcourt.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2022]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 22-2344