Norm Sibum

The Traymore Rooms (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel in Five Parts

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"Norm Sibum is not everyone's cup of tea ... instead of breathing air he inhales the exhaust of apocalyptic times.-Books in Canada

A place: the Traymore Rooms, downtown Montreal, an old walk-up. Those who live there and drink at the nearby café form the heart of Traymorean society. Their number includes: Eggy, red-faced, West Virginian, a veteran of Korea; Eleanor R (not Eleanor Roosevelt); Dubois, French Canadian, optimist; Moonface, waitress-cum-Latin-scholar and sexpot inexpert; and, most recently, our hero Calhoun. A draft dodger and poetical type.

For a time all is life-as-usual: Calhoun argues with Eggy and Dubois, eats Eleanor's cobblers, gossips of Moonface, muses on Virgil and the current President. With the arrival of a newcomer to Traymore, however, Calhoun's thoughts grow fixated and dark. He comes to believe in the reality of evil. This woman breaks no laws and she inflicts no physical harm-yet for the citizens of Traymore, ex-pats and philosophers all, her presence becomes a vortex that draws them closer to the America they dread.

Intelligent and frighteningly absurd, with a voice as nimble as Gass's and satire that pierces like Wallace's, The Traymore Roomsis a sustained howl against libertarianism under George W. Bush.

Norm Sibum has been writing and publishing poetry for over thirty years. Born in Oberammergau in 1947, he grew up in Germany, Alaska, Utah, and Washington before moving to Vancouver in 1968. The Traymore Rooms is his first novel.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biblioasis
• Seitenzahl: 696
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781927428238
• Artikelnr.: 39683506

Autorenporträt

Norm Sibum has been writing and publishing poetry for over thirty years. Born in Oberammergau in 1947, he grew up in Germany, Alaska, Utah, and Washington before moving to Vancouver in 1968. He has published several volumes of poetry in Canada and England. A joint U.S.-Canadian citizen, Sibum currently lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: The Traymore Rooms
Book I - Against Chronology
Book II - Follies Ho!
Book III - The Good Ship Lollipop
Book IV - A Proper Narrative
Book V - Returning Prodigal
Part Two: Echo's Gone
Book I - Phrygian Mode
Book II - Piano, Accordion and Oud
Book III - In Continuation, a Proper Narrative
Book IV - Sex on the Beach
Book V - Whirligigs
Book VI - A Note on Progress
Part Three: Consecrated Souls
Book I - What's a Good Woman?
Book II - In Continuation
Book III - Iron Skies and Potted Flowers
Book IV - 'It Would've Rhymed But It Was a Dry Summer'
Book V - Scéance
Book VI - De Incendio Urbis
Book VII - The Rain in Spain
Part Four: Grandeur
Book I - Pavilions of Gold
Book II - In Continuation
Book III - Mixing Bowls
Book IV - A Proper Narrative, Continued
Book V - A Ward of the Traymore
Book VI - Buffoonery and Cowardice
Book VII - Spolia Opima
Part Five: Moonface Returns
Book I - The Page Turned
Book II - Delicate Pops
Book III - A Dying World
Book IV - Short of Copy
Book V - False Carnations
Book VI - Theological Freelancing
Book VII - With a Song and a Prayer
Eggy's Coda