The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr Paperback Book

Description: The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of white passengers, ghosts, and his secret love affairBaxters name isnt George. But its 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter on a train that crisscrosses the country. So when the passengers call him George, he has to just smile and nod and act invisible. What he really wants is to go to dentistry school, but hell have to save up a lot of nickel and dime tips to get there, so he puts up with George.On this particular trip out west, the passengers are more unruly than usual, especially when the train is stalled for two extra days; their secrets start to leak out and blur with the sleep-deprivation hallucinations Baxter is having. When he finds a naughty postcard of two queer men, Baxters memories and longings are reawakened; keeping it puts his job in peril, but he cant part with the postcard or his thoughts of Edwin Drew, Porter Instructor.Mayrs prose is vivid but never overwrought, capturing the surrealism of intense fatigue in constant motion... Readers will be captivated. - Publishers Weekly, starred reviewIn 1929, being a passenger train porter was fraught with challenges...Baxters own sleep deprivation is perhaps the most intriguing character of the book. It leads to hallucinations, questionable decisions, and borderline supernatural suggestions. - Kirkus ReviewsSuzette Mayrs novelThe Sleeping Car Porteran artfully constructed story that moves, beguiles, and satisfies. - Brett Josef Grubisic,The Toronto StarSuzette Mayr brings to life - believably, achingly, thrillingly - a whole world contained in a passenger train moving across the Canadian vastness, nearly one hundred years ago. As only occurs in the finest historical novels, every page inThe Sleeping Car Porterfeels alive and immediate - and eerily contemporary. The sleeping car porter in this sleek, stylish novel is named R.T. Baxter - calledGeorgeby the people upon whom he waits, as is every other Black porter. Baxters dream of one day going to school to learn dentistry coexists with his secret life as a gay man, and in Mayrs triumphant novel we follow him not only from Montreal to Calgary, but into and out of the lives of an indelibly etched cast of supporting characters, and, finally, into a beautifully rendered radiance. - 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize JurySuzette MayrsThe Sleeping Car Porteroffers a richly detailed account of a particular occupation and time - train porter on a Canadian passenger train in 1929 - and unforcedly allows it to illuminate the societal strictures imposed on black men at the time - and today. Baxter is a secretly-queer and sleep-deprived porter saving up for dental school, working a system that periodically assigns unexplained demerits, and once a certain threshold is reached, the porter loses his job. Thus, success is impossible, the best one can do is to fail slowly. As Baxter takes a cross-continental run, the boarding passengers have more secrets than an Agatha Christie cast, creating a powder keg on train tracks.The Sleeping Car Porteris an engaging and illuminating novel about the costs of work, service, and secrets. - Keith Mosman, Powells BooksI thoughtThe Sleeping Car Porterwas fantastic! It strikes a balance between being about the struggles of being black and gay at that time while not being too heavy handed with it. I enjoyed his constant mental math on how many demerits he might receive for each infraction. The reader really gets a sense of the conflict that Baxter is going through. I really liked reading a book from the perspective of a porter. - Hunter Gillum, Beaverdale Books Author Biography Suzette Mayr is the author of the novels Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall, Monoceros, Moon Honey, The Widows, and Venous Hum. The Widows was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book in the Canada-Caribbean region, and has been translated into German. Moon Honey was shortlisted for the Writers Guild of Albertas Best First Book and Best Novel Awards. Monoceros won the ReLit Award, the City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book Prize, was longlisted for the 2011 Giller Prize, and shortlisted for a Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction, and the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction. She and her partner live in a house in Calgary close to a park teeming with coyotes. Details ISBN 1552454584 ISBN-13 9781552454589 Title The Sleeping Car Porter Author Suzette Mayr Format Paperback Year 2022 Pages 244 Publisher Coach House Books GE_Item_ID:138102583; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. 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