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Mr Loverman

Mr Loverman

by Bernardine Evaristo

Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction WinnerFamiliesFictionOlder gay menDysfunctional families
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Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney, London, for years. A flamboyant character with a fondness for William Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father, grandfather--and also secretly gay. With an abundance of laugh-out-loud humor and wit, Mr. Loverman explodes cultural myths and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves. His deeply religious and disappointed wife, Carmel, thinks he sleeps with other women. When their marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington wants to divorce Carmel and live with Morris, but after a lifetime of fear and deception, will he manage to break away? With an abundance of laugh-out-loud humor and wit, Mr. Loverman explodes cultural myths and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselve

Themes & subjects

Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction WinnerFamiliesFictionOlder gay menDysfunctional familiesSocial life and customs

About the author

Bernardine Evaristo

1959

Author

Bernardine Evaristo

Pages

320

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

14

Language

English

Publisher

Akashic Books

ISBN

9780241996577

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