Barrow's Point

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Price
$20.00  $18.60
Publisher
Gival Press
Publish Date
Pages
260
Dimensions
6.0 X 9.0 X 0.59 inches | 0.85 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781940724072

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About the Author
Robert Schirmer's story collection "Living with Strangers" won the Bobst Award for Emerging Writers and was published by NYU Press. His stories have appeared in "Glimmer Train," "Sewanee Review," "Byliner," "New England Review," "Epoch," "Fiction" and "The Best of Witness." He's the recipient of an O. Henry Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a fellowship from the Chesterfield Writer's Film Project. His screenplays have been optioned by Amblin Entertainment and Warner Brothers. This is his first published novel.
Reviews
"Barrow's Point is an eye-opening, engaging and emotionally touching novel. Ostensibly, it is a murder mystery: Gay men are being killed one by one in a college town in Wisconsin. A gay cop and the rest of the police force have few, if any, leads in their search for the killer. Within this frame, a complex story of family dynamics and intimate relationships emerges. There are incidents of rage, sorrow and reconciliation. We learn how gayness or straightness brings people together or, more often, pushes them apart. There are no simple answers in this story of several people who live with or close to each other, but for whom intimacy is a state that is needed but not easily achieved." -Thaddeus Rutkowski, judge and author of "Violent Outbursts"