Kansas in August : A Novel
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[Place of publication not identified] : Open Road Media, [2016].
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1 online resource (140 pages)
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A riotous dark comedy set in the backstreets of London about an unconventional love triangle, a lonely teacher, and a lost baby. Hilary Metcalfe is an English teacher who loathes his work so thoroughly that he requires a half bottle of scotch in order to grade a stack of homework. His only joys are private ones: American musicals, from South Pacific to The King and I , and his absolutely gorgeous lover, Rufus, whom he has utterly failed to domesticate. Once, he had dreams of being an actor, a star of London's West End. Now he would settle for the knowledge that Rufus is his and his alone. He'll get neither-but he may get something much better instead. When Rufus stands him up on his birthday, Hilary discovers something astonishing in the subway station: a frightened, abandoned baby boy. Drunk and lonely, Hilary brings the baby home to his seedy Shepherd's Bush flat, and soon finds he cannot live without the child. As Rufus falls into a romantic encounter with, of all people, Hilary's sister, the three are caught in a bizarre love triangle-with a baby in the middle. A spiritual sequel to Patrick Gale's second London novel, Ease , this is a charming portrait of the British capital at its most cosmopolitan. For anyone who has ever wished for a life different from his own, Kansas in August is a captivating tale.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Gale, P. (2016). Kansas in August: A Novel . Open Road Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gale, Patrick, 1962-. 2016. Kansas in August: A Novel. Open Road Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gale, Patrick, 1962-. Kansas in August: A Novel Open Road Media, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Gale, Patrick. Kansas in August: A Novel Open Road Media, 2016.
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