Nominated for a Commonwealth Writers Prize, this extravagant and tragicomic novel is told in the musical lilt of Spanglish. Camilo, a strong-willed queen from Chile, tells his story as he lays dying in his hospital bed, recalling a life of sequins and disco. "Realistic, stream-of-consciousness style."—Time Out (London)
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Intricate, delicately plotted and playing to both comedy and tragedy, [Flesh Wounds] is a portrait of a truly unique character. . .
—Gay People's Chronicle (Gay People's Chron. )
. . . very promising. . . [Camilo's] is a voice to mourn; his author, one to hope to hear from again.
—Lambda Book Report (Lambda Book Report )
By turns comic and tragic, the storytelling style is refreshing and appropriate. . .
—The Loop (The Loop )
. . . wrapped in humourous layers of bittersweet love and hedonistic lust.
—Xtra! (Xtra! )
The story contains many moments of raw beauty, and many of extraordinary power.
—Quill & Quire (Quill & Quire )
—Gay People's Chronicle (Gay People's Chron. )
. . . very promising. . . [Camilo's] is a voice to mourn; his author, one to hope to hear from again.
—Lambda Book Report (Lambda Book Report )
By turns comic and tragic, the storytelling style is refreshing and appropriate. . .
—The Loop (The Loop )
. . . wrapped in humourous layers of bittersweet love and hedonistic lust.
—Xtra! (Xtra! )
The story contains many moments of raw beauty, and many of extraordinary power.
—Quill & Quire (Quill & Quire )
From the Publisher
Francisco was born in Santiago, Chile and came to Canada in 1985. His stories have appeared in the anthologies Best Gay Men's Fiction 2000, Contra/diction: New Queer Men's Fiction, and Hockey Night in Canada. His journalism has appeared in magazines including Fuse, Mix, Front, and Border/lines. He works as a community educator and social researcher in Vancouver.
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