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Winner of the ReLit Award for Best Novel Shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Award for Women's Fiction An American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book Ivan E. Coyote is acclaimed as one of North America's most beguiling storytellers; Ivan's honest, down-to-earth tales, many of which are based on personal experience, are compelling for their simple human truths. Ivan's 2005 story collection, Loose End, was also shortlisted for the prestigious Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction. Bow Grip, Ivan's long-awaited first novel, is a breathtaking story about love and loneliness, and the long road one must travel between them. Joey is a good-hearted, fortysomething mechanic from small-town Alberta whose wife has recently left him for another woman. When a stranger named James approaches his shop and agrees to purchase a beat-up blue Volvo in exchange for a beautiful, hand-crafted cello, Joey sees it as an opportunity to finally make some overdue changes in his life. But some troubling suspicions about James, and a desire to close the door on his failed marriage, compels Joey to hit the road and travel to Calgary, the big city by the Bow River. He stations himself at a rundown motel, where he struggles to learn how to play the cello, and strangers with their own complicated pasts--an older gay man, a single mother--become confidants. With quiet authority, Bow Grip is about one man's real rite of passage--trying to keep the ghosts of personal history at bay with a heart that's as big as the endless prairie sky. German-language rights sold to Verlag Krug & Schadenberg Now in its third printing… (mer)
I absolutely loved this book from start to end. The writing is beautiful, the characters are amazingly real and varied, the pacing exquisite and the events (not plot, per se, because this is very much a slice of life story) interwoven beautifully.
There is a lot of emotion, as viewpoint character Joe goes through a series of life changes in short order. But is it not Joe's story, per se, but the stories of many people that they interact with over a relatively short period.
And for me, as a middle-aged queer, there were things in this story that resonate, that I've not seen in other stories. ( )
This book doesn't fit in many of the "shelf" categories I created, which is probably a flaw on my part but also indicative of what this book is like. Read it for my Women's Studies class in first year (borrowed the copy, I believe, from Abby, because as notorious a book-buyer I am, I'm an equally notorious book-borrower, from private libraries as much as public). It's not my usual reading, but it's a good novel, and I still find it absurdly exciting when things are actually set in Canada. ( )
This might be the book for you if you like to read about average male protagonists and their average day that turns out to be rather special after all, but dislike the bullshit that comes with these kind of stories. Well. Bow Grip is actually quite good for that genre. So much less sexist, heterosexist and otherwise normative than most other novels that start out like this. Still, while I enjoyed the last bit, there was to much white-cis-male feelings for me to actually like this book, it was a bit unnerving and rather boring to read through all that. The the story turned out to be a bit different and much more likeable though and yeah, I'm not even being sarcastic when I recommend this book as an alternative to the usual male tears introspective stuff. ( )
It was kind of not the best in that the main character sort of suddenly started developing an inner life after having pretty much none for the first forty years of his life. Sometimes I feel like butches have too much sympathy for straight men and their plight.
But then again there'll be these real true moments so its not bad. Plus the first novel is always the hardest.
I started reading this book in the waiting room on the morning that my mother went into the hospital for scheduled surgery. Just hours later, my daughter was brought into the ER downstairs and my entire life changed forever. I picked up the book again, a week and a half later, looking for a distraction, and wanting to be lulled into some temporary sense of peace by a somber and lyrical voice. It is Ivan's gift, that kind of voice, and while the novel will forever be connected to this moment in time for me, it is worth the weight of every page.
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Winner of the ReLit Award for Best Novel Shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Award for Women's Fiction An American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book Ivan E. Coyote is acclaimed as one of North America's most beguiling storytellers; Ivan's honest, down-to-earth tales, many of which are based on personal experience, are compelling for their simple human truths. Ivan's 2005 story collection, Loose End, was also shortlisted for the prestigious Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction. Bow Grip, Ivan's long-awaited first novel, is a breathtaking story about love and loneliness, and the long road one must travel between them. Joey is a good-hearted, fortysomething mechanic from small-town Alberta whose wife has recently left him for another woman. When a stranger named James approaches his shop and agrees to purchase a beat-up blue Volvo in exchange for a beautiful, hand-crafted cello, Joey sees it as an opportunity to finally make some overdue changes in his life. But some troubling suspicions about James, and a desire to close the door on his failed marriage, compels Joey to hit the road and travel to Calgary, the big city by the Bow River. He stations himself at a rundown motel, where he struggles to learn how to play the cello, and strangers with their own complicated pasts--an older gay man, a single mother--become confidants. With quiet authority, Bow Grip is about one man's real rite of passage--trying to keep the ghosts of personal history at bay with a heart that's as big as the endless prairie sky. German-language rights sold to Verlag Krug & Schadenberg Now in its third printing
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There is a lot of emotion, as viewpoint character Joe goes through a series of life changes in short order. But is it not Joe's story, per se, but the stories of many people that they interact with over a relatively short period.
And for me, as a middle-aged queer, there were things in this story that resonate, that I've not seen in other stories. (