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Mr Loverman

"Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney, London, for years. A flamboyant character with a fondness for William Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father, grandfather--and also secretly gay. With an abundance of laugh-out-loud humor and wit, Mr. Loverman explodes cultural myths and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves. His deeply religious and disappointed wife, Carmel, thinks he sleeps with other women. When their marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington wants to divorce Carmel and live with Morris, but after a lifetime of fear and deception, will he manage to break away? With an abundance of laugh-out-loud humor and wit, Mr. Loverman explodes cultural myths and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves"--Amazon.com, viewed February 21, 2014.

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  • "Een getrouwde Caribische man (74) twijfelt of hij Zijn huwelijk op het spel zal zetten om te gaan samenwonen met zijn vriend."
  • "Seventy-four-year-old flamboyant Hackney personality Barry is known for his dapper taste and fondness for retro suits. He is a husband, father, and grandfather. And for the past sixty years, he has been in a secret relationship with his childhood friend and soulmate, Morris... Carmel knows Barry is unfaithful, but suspects a parade of ladies rather than the truth. After her husband makes one too many late-night returns to their marital bed, Carmel finally instigates a new regime of absolute fidelity. Spurred into action by this declaration, Barry suggests to Morris that they stop the charade and spend their twilight years living together - but his lover refuses, still resenting Barry's failure to set up home with him two decades before. As a marriage goes into meltdown, all three parties have major choices to make..."
  • ""Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney, London, for years. A flamboyant character with a fondness for William Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father, grandfather--and also secretly gay. With an abundance of laugh-out-loud humor and wit, Mr. Loverman explodes cultural myths and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves. His deeply religious and disappointed wife, Carmel, thinks he sleeps with other women. When their marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington wants to divorce Carmel and live with Morris, but after a lifetime of fear and deception, will he manage to break away? With an abundance of laugh-out-loud humor and wit, Mr. Loverman explodes cultural myths and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves"--Amazon.com, viewed February 21, 2014."@en
  • "A groundbreaking, hilarious novel about two elder gay Caribbean men coming to terms with being closeted in a changing world."@en

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"
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  • "Mr. Loverman : a novel"@en
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