Hovering World

A day-in-the-life novel - but what a day, what a life! PeterDubé's first novel, Hovering World, moves effortlessly from sunlight to midnight andfar beyond, in passages that are by turns haunting and haunted, surrealand erotic. The arrival of a photo of an angel sets offa quest of sorts, and along the way we encounter a generalnamed Disarray, essays in art theory, moments of passionate obsession in boththe streets of the city and the 'opaque corridors' of a gay sauna.Hovering World is queer in all the best senses of the word -non-conformist, eccentric, dissenting, crazed, aberrant and, of course, invaluable. An unforgettable debut.(Will Aitken, author of Realia)'Dubé easily conveys not only the awe and anxiety that goes witha spiritual awakening, but also the futility of trying to contain thatawakening, or even convey it, within the margins of a photograph, or the pages of a book.'- Sue McCluskey, This Magazine, 2003