Join author Darren Greer as he returns to the lecture hall he sat in 40 years ago. In conversation with Ian Stewart, Associate Professor of Humanities, he’ll be speaking on his writing life and his new novel, The Range Rules.
Darren Greer is the author of five award-winning, critically acclaimed novels which have won the ReLit Award, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the Dartmouth Book Award. An important voice in queer Canadian literature, The Range Rules brings a nuanced conversation to difficult topics of addiction, the prison system and trauma.
The Range Rules by Cormorant Books:
“When Ryan and Shawn Sullivan’s socially ambitious father enrols them in the prestigious Novato Towne School for Boys, the brothers unwittingly uncover the strange legacy of Charles Steven Kaye, a student who, expelled two decades prior for “lewd and disgusting acts,” became the notorious and universally reviled gay pornographer John Dark. Obsessed by the enigmatic figure of Dark and stifled by the pressures of his upper-middle-class upbringing, Shawn leaves his affluent family home and disappears into the underground queer scene. Following his older brother into this hidden world, Ryan seeks to capture Shawn’s life on film and make sense of his unravelling.
Set against the backdrop of a parole house, to which Ryan was released after three years in jail, The Range Rules is a daring, defiant, and darkly wondrous exploration of transgressive queer pornography, prison culture, twelve-step recovery, and a search for redemption, connection, and compassion in spite of the invisible laws that govern our lives.”
