{"product_id":"dr-sad-9781773851037","title":"Dr Sad","description":"\u003cp\u003eStephen is middle-aged. He's gay. He's content, except when he isn't. Stephen is a teacher. He's a poet. He has a new teaching job in Kamloops, BC. Stephen has HIV.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDR SAD\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of one man's journey across Canada and through his diagnosis. It is the story of the distance between queer urban spaces and a small campus in a small city in small-town BC. It is the story of discovering the self within the world, and the world within the self, of discovering the difference between living a life and simply enduring one. This is a tragicomic cross-campus, cross-country romp that believes in the power of romance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWeaving together narratives of past and present, of Toronto's Gay Village and the streets of Kamloops, BC this lively and dynamic semi-autobiographical novel dives deeply into gender and queerness, class and privilege, and the realities of aging. It is a dynamic and engaging hybrid, stylistically daring while remaining intimate and human.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeaping through time and mixing the playfully serious with the seriously playful, \u003cem\u003eDR SAD\u003c\/em\u003e blends poetry with prose and finds the humour in despair in one complete, glittering tragedy of triumph\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Bateman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52146209816859,"sku":"9781773851037","price":42.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/img_514b9e6d-2dbe-428f-a93e-d6bbbf85b248.jpg?v=1777596315","url":"https:\/\/sapphicsociety.com\/en-ca\/products\/dr-sad-9781773851037","provider":"Sapphic Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}