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02988aam a2200505 i 4500 001 F0E30E6E5B3C11ED8F2A915D41ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221103010037 008 220309t20222022onca b 000 f eng c 020 $a 1552454584 020 $a 9781552454589 035 $a (OCoLC)1302576764 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d NLC $d BDX $d NLC $d YDX $d JCX $d NYP $d ABJ $d UKMGB $d TOH $d SILO 042 $a lac 050 4 $a 819.32 M1374.6 055 0 $a PS8576 A9 S54 2022 084 $a cci1icc $2 lacc 100 1 $a Mayr, Suzette, $e author. 245 14 $a The sleeping car porter / $c Suzette Mayr. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Toronto : $b Coach House Books, $c [2022] 300 $a 219 pages : $b illustration ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-219). 520 $a "The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a gay man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two ways. Affecting, imaginative, and visceral enough that you'll feel the rocking of the train, The Sleeping Car Porter is a stunning accomplishment. Baxter's name isn't George. But it's 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter on a train that crisscrosses the country. So when the passengers call him George, he has to just smile and nod and act invisible. What he really wants is to go to dentistry school, but he'll have to save up a lot of nickel and dime tips to get there, so he puts up with "George." On this particular trip out west, the passengers are more unruly than usual, especially when the train is stalled for two extra days; their secrets start to leak out and blur with the sleep-deprivation hallucinations Baxter is having. When he finds a naughty postcard of two gay men, Baxter's memories and longings are reawakened; keeping it puts his job in peril, but he can't part with the postcard or his thoughts of Edwin Drew, Porter Instructor."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic formats. 650 0 $a Racism $v Fiction. 650 0 $a African American men $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Gay men $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Porters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Sleep deprivation $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Tipping $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Dentistry $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Rail passengers $v Fiction. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Mayr, Suzette. $t Sleeping car porter. $d Toronto : Coach House Books, 2022 $z 9781770567269 $z 9781770567269 $w (OCoLC)1304490585 941 $a 8 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314024732.0 952 $l ETPD745 $d 20231025014343.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010031351.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20230906010428.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230302021355.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20230207010917.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230104010723.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20221206012513.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F0E30E6E5B3C11ED8F2A915D41ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search