The Belated Education of Jerry Deaver
By David Gamble
()
About this ebook
Soon turning fifty, Jerry Deaver’s life of stability comes crashing down. Having left his wife more than two years before without apparent reasons, Jerry returned home to assist his dying wife and to look after two twenty something children. Following her death, he tries to rebuild his life with his adult children, Richard and Lauren, both in graduate studies. However, his son bears an insoluble resentment for his father’s leaving in the first place, while the daughter becomes amenable to rebuild. However, things fall apart when two pornographic tapes discovered by his children reveal his orientation. Jerry is, and has always been, gay.
Not by choice is he launched into an alien space, liminal and foreboding. Desperately, he reconnects with old secret friends and makes new ones, desperately tries to realign with his children, invades the party scene, joins a gym, gets involved with shady characters, experiments sexually, challenges his superiors at work, discovers an intellectual mentor, renews lost, close friendships, reorganizes himself with his extended family and reinvents himself in the possibility of a new significant other—all in the course of the summer of 1996. When the floor of familiarity gave way, he just keeps falling until he grabs hold of a future.
While the summer of 1996 is a re-education for Jerry, he almost fails the course. The idea of re-education demands that that the protagonist realign his whole world and consciousness with his new commitment to a profound honesty coming from the pretense of 49 years. Education is interior; he must relearn how to be.
David Gamble
David Gamble is a retired high school teacher of some 50 years in the class room. Having worked for thirty-three years in the public high school system in Ottawa, Ontario, as an English, ESL and dramatic arts teacher, he moved to an independent school in Toronto, University of Toronto Schools, then completed his career as an English, ESL and history teacher at Canada’s National Ballet School.David Gamble participated in the extra-curricular theatre program by directing and writing scripts for students throughout his career. He finished his public-school career as English department head and acting vice-principal.He currently lives in Toronto with his spouse.
Related to The Belated Education of Jerry Deaver
Related ebooks
The Journey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAin't Nothin' But a Stranger in This World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsErosion: Essays of Undoing Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Margery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKhepera Rising Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Forgotten Isle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCage the Park Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCoach: Fake Relationships, Real Secrets, Happy Endings Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJust Sky Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCutting of Harp Strings: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWidow’S Walk: Part 2: the Reckoning Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHelios Quarterly Magazine Volume 2, Issue 1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWaiting for Walker Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Operation Edge Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAlien Day Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Sound of Karma Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIntergalactic Nuthouse Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Burning World: A Warm Bodies Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Sin Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsiGod: A Hidden and Fragmentary Autobiography Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Journal: Cracked Earth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When The Ball Drops Foul Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsImageOutWrite: Volume Nine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLAdies' Night Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNew York at Twilight: Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsImages of Silence Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Season Of Hyde #1: An Unknown Survivor's Tale Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMemories of a Forgotten Place Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Redemption of Preacher Emmanuel Jennings Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWaldo: And the Ramblings on Man Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Gay Fiction For You
Pomegranate: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Him: Him, #1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Orlando: A Biography Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Kiss Her Once for Me: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ghost Wall: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maurice Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cabin at the End of the World: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Priory of the Orange Tree Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Marvellous Light Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Exquisite Corpse Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We the Animals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Zombie: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Us: Him, #2 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5White Trash Warlock Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Young Mungo Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5City of Night Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The House of Impossible Beauties: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Was: a novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Misadventures of Doc and Dirk, Volume I Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lie With Me: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Querelle of Roberval Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Are Water: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just by Looking at Him: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Silver in the Wood Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5These Violent Delights: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Going Home Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Persian Boy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle: Chapter Sampler Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJonny Appleseed Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related categories
Reviews for The Belated Education of Jerry Deaver
0 ratings0 reviews