Gentleman Death / Perpetual Motion
Together in a single volume, two beloved works by the inimitable Graeme Gibson.
Gentleman Death
Novelist Robert Fraser comes face-to-face with creativity, his mortality, and the deaths of his father and brother. Set mainly in Toronto, the novel also takes us to London, Scotland, Germany, and New York as we follow the escapades of two of Fraser's fictional characters. There is Simpson, called into service as an anonymous sperm donor, and Dunbar, an enigmatic tourist in Berlin just before the Chernobyl disaster, where he meets the captivating Lena, with whom he begins to sense an almost forgotten freedom and elation.
But at the centre of Gentleman Death is Robert Fraser's own compelling story. Gibson juxtaposes reality and fiction…