Losing it

Alan Cumyn

first published 2001 St. Martin's Press, 2003 365 pages

"Sometimes those who have the most seem bent on throwing it away. Meet Bob Sterling, a comfortable middle-aged professor, a specialist in the life of Edgar Allan Poe, married to a former student with whom he has a young son. In the space of a week, his family, marriage, home, career, sanity, and life are brought to the brink of ruin in the aftermath of a trip he makes with a student, the intense young poet Sienna Chu...

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Losing it edition · 2003 · St. Martin's Press · 365 pages
Losing it edition · 2002 · Emblem Editions · 365 pages
Losing it edition · 2001 · McClelland & Stewart · 365 pages

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