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Queer and Alone

Queer and Alone

Strahs, James

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 0996764607
ISBN13: 9780996764605
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Aug 17 2015
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Monrovia. Bali. Bombay. Cayman Islands. Hollywood. The names of faraway places dot the pages of Queer and Alone like thousands of islands in a deep blue sea. Indeed, the hero - or is he an ironic anti-hero? - of this novel is a man literally at sea. He is Desmond Farrquahr who boards a steamer bound for Hong Kong by way of the Cape of Good Hope. Looking for experience, taking in the sights, hoping. For what? Queer and Alone is a wildly exuberant travelogue as monologue, an eccentric American's view of tourism. One might call it a scatalogical romance, with a story and a girl in every port. It's all part of the novel experience of being there, Farrquahr wordplays with the reader. As narrator of the novel he shows off incredibly sly linguistic gifts that turn even the slightest image or sound into the dazzling rhythms of word magic. Whether it's describing racial fantasy films in Africa, investigating murder in Bombay, or seducing stately women in staterooms, Farrquahr manages to have the most ingenious takes on culture. In one of the most funny scenes in the novel the narrator is seen eating several (dis)courses of a chopstick dinner that makes the ideologies of both East and West seem like entangled sesame noodles. Tourism moves closer to zany anthopology whenever Farrquahr acts as guide. Desmond Farrquahr is a very queer fellow if judged by any conventional standards. But isn't the world itself a queer place these days?

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