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Darren Greer launches The Range Rules

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University of King's College - KTS Room, 6350 Coburg Road, Halifax, NS, B3H 2A1
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https://kingsbookstore.ca/events/6139420261008
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Award-winning author Darren Greer is back in Halifax and joining us to discuss his new book, The Range Rules!

When Ryan and Shawn Sullivan’s socially ambitious father enrolls 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.

Darren is the author of six award-winning, critically acclaimed novels. Still Life with June won the 2004 ReLit Award, and was a Now Magazine’s Top 10 pick for 2005. Just Beneath My Skin won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award in 2015, and his novel Advocate won the Dartmouth Book Award.

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