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02228aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 31CF2BEEF38911E3A92314AFDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20230311010149 008 130927r20142013nyu 000 1 eng d 010 $a 2013956051 020 $a 1617752894 (hardcover) 020 $a 9781617752896 (hardcover) 020 $a 161775272X (paperback) 020 $a 9781617752728 (paperback) 035 $a (OCoLC)859046507 040 $d SILO 082 04 $a 823/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Evaristo, Bernardine, $d 1959- 245 10 $a Mr. Loverman : $b a novel / $c Bernardine Evaristo 246 3 $a Mister Loverman 246 3 $a Mr. lover man 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Akashic Books, $c [2014] 300 $a 284 pages ; $c 22 cm 500 $a "Originally published in the United Kingdom by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin in 2013"--Title page verso 520 $a "Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney, London, for years. A flamboyant character with a fondness for William Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father, grandfather--and also secretly gay. With an abundance of laugh-out-loud humor and wit, Mr. Loverman explodes cultural myths and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves. His deeply religious and disappointed wife, Carmel, thinks he sleeps with other women. When their marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington wants to divorce Carmel and live with Morris, but after a lifetime of fear and deception, will he manage to break away? With an abundance of laugh-out-loud humor and wit, Mr. Loverman explodes cultural myths and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves"--Amazon.com, viewed February 21, 2014 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction 650 0 $a Older gay men $v Fiction 650 0 $a Dysfunctional families $v Fiction 651 0 $a Hackney (London, England) $x Social life and customs $v Fiction 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210505010927.0 952 $l NBPB943 $d 20180704035158.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20160216010336.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=31CF2BEEF38911E3A92314AFDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search