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An unforgettable memoir about gender journeys and enduring friendship
For years Richard Beard would take spontaneous holidays with his motor-cycling friend Drew. They would spend a few days walking camping cycling canoeing - outdoor manly fun - before returning to everyday life: wives children jobs. Richard was writing novels. Drew was working in the engine-room of cross-channel passenger ferries. Then one year Drew phoned to announce a complication: he was planning to transition and begin living as a woman.
This is the story of how Drew became Dru of what happened to their friendship and their adventures in wildest Wales the first time they went camping as man and woman. It is warm sad funny; an intimate tale of shared humanity.
An unforgettable memoir about gender journeys and enduring friendship
For years Richard Beard would take spontaneous holidays with his motor-cycling friend Drew. They would spend a few days walking camping cycling canoeing - outdoor manly fun - before returning to everyday life: wives children jobs. Richard was writing novels. Drew was working in the engine-room of cross-channel passenger ferries. Then one year Drew phoned to announce a complication: he was planning to transition and begin living as a woman.
This is the story of how Drew became Dru of what happened to their friendship and their adventures in wildest Wales the first time they went camping as man and woman. It is warm sad funny; an intimate tale of shared humanity.
Richard Beard's most recent book is Acts of the Assassins, which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize.
In the twenty years since his first book he has published critically acclaimed novels and narrative non-fiction, including Becoming Drusilla, the story of how a friendship between two men was changed by a gender transition.
He was formerly Director of the National Academy of Writing in London, and is now a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo and has a Creative Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. He is an optimistic opening batsman for the Authors Cricket Club.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
| Genre: | Importe, Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie |
| Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| ISBN-13: | 9780099507734 |
| ISBN-10: | 0099507730 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Beard, Richard |
| Hersteller: | Vintage |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 198 x 129 x 19 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Richard Beard |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 07.05.2009 |
| Gewicht: | 0,385 kg |