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About the Book

Kinky. Trans. Deep. And on Fire. That's how you could describe the narrator -- and the novel. Twenty years ago, the publishing world thought Vera sizzled too much to take a chance on it. But it's not 1999 anymore. And Vera has finally come out. Part Don Quixote bubbling dreamer, part reckless detective, the narrator of Vera pilots her way through a murky urban terrain, in search of love and answers. What she discovers, in a 1990's San Francisco, stuck some between AIDS and 911, is not what she sets out to find. The Don Quixote (in sound bytes) of a pansexual search for meaning in the sometimes absurd and often confounding landscape of modern love, Vera is a trans-genre picaresque-romance-mystery novel that ​chronicles the sometimes comic, sometimes kinky exploits of a poet-cum-detective in search of her Russian lover who has mysteriously disappeared. Or at least that's how the novel begins, until the narrator discovers it really is a very different, and much more complex, journey she is on. In dreamlike pursuit of the elusive Vera (which means truth or faith in Russian), the narrator finds and loses herself in a world stuck somewhere between AIDS and 9/11--San Francisco in the 1990s--only to discover what it is she is really looking for.

About the Author :
Winner of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, finalist for Yale Younger Poets, The Colorado Prize and The Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award, Gabrielle Glancy is the author of The Art of the College Essay and the editor of Best College Essays. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review and many other journals and anthologies. Her book I'm Already Disturbed Please Come In was listed among the top thirty books you may have missed in 2015 by The Advocate.

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Absolutely superb, sexy, captivating. . . -W.W. Norton & Company . . . An assured debut . . . -Bloomsbury, London UK . . This fast-paced frolic is appealing. . . -Chronicle Books Glancy's an original, and she writes with a great deal of energy and verve- Hanya Yanagihara . . . An accomplished and inventive writer who knows what she's doing . . . I would guess there's a readership hungry for this book. -Henry Holt and Company, Inc. A sexy, charming writer. -Farrar, Straus & Giroux Vera is truly one of the most inventive novels I have ever read. --Penguin Putnam, Inc. [I] read it all in one sitting last Saturday. Gabrielle Glancy is an enormously talented writer with a wonderful voice. Unfortunately, I think Vera is too literary for us, on one hand, and too sexy, on the other. -Pocket Books The narrative voice is fantastic-strong and funny . . . this novel deserves attention. -Macmillan, U.K. Vera is a wild ride, and Gabrielle Glancy writes with great energy and heat . . . -Knopf I have to say-and you're calling my true colors now-I think this manuscript sizzles too much for us to take it on . . . Sorry to be such a prude. -Houghton Mifflin


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780991214990
  • Publisher: Oneiric Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oneiric Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 232
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0991214994
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 349 gr


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