Welcome to the homepage of Andy Quan's "Calendar Boy" |
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Description: |
On the edge of adulthood,
self-discovery, coming out; in university towns, Europe,
Vancouver, Toronto, Sydney, the protagonists of Calendar
Boy unravel cultural heritage, community, identity on the
road to - they hope - love, happiness, and self-acceptance.
Set around the globe, sixteen adventurous stories weave
fictions with real-life smarts, guts and oomph
underpinning them. Throughout, Quan shifts gears effortlessly from street-smart colloquial voice to rapid-fire monologue to the bemused, exhilarated tone of immigrants new to Canada or to gay male culture. With one foot in urban Canadian life and the other in the global village, Calendar Boy will hit home even as it makes you see the world in new ways. Calendar Boy was published by New Star Books in July 2001 in North America and by Penguin Australia in January 2002. |
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Review: |
"There are 16
stories in this debut collection from well-traveled
Canadian writer Andy Quan, and therefore more than a
dozen good reasons to appreciate its charms, its snarls,
its several voices and its singular center, its moments
of coming-out poignancy and racial -politics perception
and immigrant-outsider displacement and sexual-play
eroticism… Not one flat tone, this book, but a
symphony of cultures, gay and Asian, and of communities,
Canadian and global, and of emotions, longing and lusty."
- Richard Labonté the full review is at: www.lambdalit.org/lbr/CalendarBoy.htm |
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Excerpt: |
For those of you who haven't bought the book yet (and what are you waiting for?), here's a sample story: Hair | ||||||
Top Ten List: |
I like lists, so I have to share this
one with you. It's just a sales list for February 2003
for Blackberry Books in Vancouver. But any list that I
get to be in the same company as folks like Yann Martel,
Mordechai Richler and Barbara Gowdy amuses me greatly! TOP TEN CANADIAN FICTION TITLES FOR FEBRUARY 1) Life of Pi by Yann Martel $21.00 paperback |
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Where to Find it: |
In Canada and the USA, ask at your
local bookstore. If they don't have it, bookstores can
order directly through New
Star Books, +1-604-738-9429, e-mail:
orders@newstarbooks.com.
Give them this info Calendar
Boy / Andy Quan In Australia, I received the unfortunate news in May 04 that Penguin accidentally pulped all remaining copies of the Australian edition... There are a few copies out there in used bookstores. More importantly, my lovely Canadian publishers have agreed to ship copies of the Canadian version out to me - so get your copy through The Bookshop Darlinghurst, Hares and Hyenas or get it through me (as above, at one of my gigs, or drop me a line by e-mail) Internationally, it's probably easiest to order the book from your favourite online bookseller! |
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