The Beheading Game,9780916727246

The Beheading Game

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ISBN13: 9780916727246
ISBN10: 0916727246
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-01-01
Publisher(s): Wings Press
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Summary

Set in New York, this story follows a gay couple's personal struggles with serious illness and coming out issues, all set against a contemporary version of the medieval English story, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."

Author Biography

Brenda Webster is the author of two novels, two critical studies of the poets Yeats and Blake, and an award-winning memoir, The Last Good Freudian. She is the current president of PEN West.

Table of Contents

1. winter weather
3(10)
2. challenges
13(12)
3. christmas disrupted
25(8)
4. old plots, new plots
33
5. diverse blows
19(42)
6. rescuing damsels
61(18)
7. a different journey begins
79(18)
8. a tourney
97(10)
9. humors
107(10)
10. descent 117(10)
11. sleights of hand 127(10)
12. Reprieve 137(8)
13. skirmishes, or, move games 145(14)
14. temptations 159(12)
15. secrets 171(12)
16. grief and grace 183(14)
17. interlude 197(16)
18. sorrow and grief 213

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