Day for night : a novel

Summary: "An unflinching exploration of love and boundaries in Brexit-crazed London. Richard Cottar is a respected independent film writer and director; his wife, Joanna, is his increasingly successful and wealthy producer. Together they are about to embark on a film about the life of Walter Benjamin, the German Jewish intellectual who killed himself in northern Spain while on the run from the Nazis in 1940. In what looks set to be the last year of Britain's membership of the European Union, Benjamin's story of exile and statelessness is more relevant than ever. But Richard and Joanna's symbiotic life takes a sudden turn when they cast a intelligent, sexually ambiguous young actor in the role of Walter Benjamin. In a climate of fear and a bizarre, superheated year redolent of sex and hidden desire, Richard and Joanna must confront their relationship, Benjamin's tragic history, and the future of their country. Taking its cue from Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Day for Night is an unsettling, riveting story of reversals -- of gender, power, and history."--

Record details

ISBN: 9781773057057
ISBN: 1773057057
ISBN: 9781773057064
ISBN: 1773057065
ISBN: 9781773057071
ISBN: 1773057073
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource (267 pages)
Publisher: Toronto : ECW Press, [2021]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 01, 2021).