{"product_id":"confluence","title":"Confluence: A Novel","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n \u003ca class=\"active\" href=\"#tab1\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab3\"\u003eDetails\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n \n \u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n \u003cli class=\"active\" id=\"tab1\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead by Dan Abramovici\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intimate, deeply moving queer coming-of-age novel that evokes '50s small-town life and the surprisingly wild pre-Stonewall '60s\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1956, lonely teenager Teddy is drawn to the water and woods surrounding his small town, where he meets bad boy Wade and becomes overwhelmed by his attraction to him. During the rapturous early period of their friendship, the two range over the area’s mountains and waterways before falling out after high school over Teddy’s sexuality. In the years following their separation, Teddy—now going by Ted—struggles to live openly as a gay man, finding and losing lovers at parties, dance clubs, and cruising spots in a surprisingly wild pre-Stonewall gay Vancouver. He is befriended by a lively crew of eccentrics—a new chosen family—who aid him in finding fulfillment both as a gay man and as an artist. Returning to his hometown nearly a decade later, Ted must decide whether or not to reunite with the one who once meant so much to him: the sexy and mercurial Wade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConfluence\u003c\/i\u003e is a collaboration between late author Alex Turner and his husband, Lucian Childs. Drawing on his sixty-year history with his beloved West Coast home, Turner wrote much of this beautifully rendered novel before he passed away in 2019. Childs, an award-winning author himself, completed the work, a novel that is simultaneously poetic, humorous, and exuberantly down to earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-top: 20px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sans-serif-special\"\u003eBUY FROM:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/ca\/en\/audiobook\/confluence-35\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/2207\/files\/Kobo_Button_2219341d-eeb9-486d-b01d-4aeeb45141df.png\" width=\"100\" height=\"30\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.audible.ca\/pd\/Confluence-Audiobook\/B0HK1NN62N\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/2207\/files\/Audible_Button_9e64a37c-785f-4f46-be5e-2bd2e12e6c7f.png\" width=\"100\" height=\"30\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"small-grey-text\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrice may vary by retailer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlso available at your local independent bookstore!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp style=\"padding-top: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sans-serif-special\"\u003eBUY FROM ECW PRESS:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlex Turner \u003c\/b\u003e(1940–2019) (he\/him) graduated from the Vancouver School of Art and the University of British Columbia and subsequently taught in Toronto at the Art Centre of the Central Technical School. After retirement, Alex turned to fiction, and his short fiction appears in the literary magazine Prairie Fire. \u003ci\u003eConfluence\u003c\/i\u003e is his debut novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucian Childs\u003c\/b\u003e (he\/him) is a writer whose debut novel-in-stories, \u003ci\u003eDreaming Home\u003c\/i\u003e (Biblioasis), won the Fred Kerner Book Award and was shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. He is a contributing editor of Lambda Literary Award finalist \u003ci\u003eBuilding Fires in the Snow\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Alaska Press). His work appears in \u003ci\u003eGrain, Ex-Puritan, Prairie Fire,\u003c\/i\u003e and other publications. He lives in Toronto, ON.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003cli id=\"tab3\"\u003e\n \u003cp\u003ePublished: September 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781778526411\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eDuration: 5:32\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published by: Arsenal Pulp Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n \n \u003c!-- split --\u003e\n \n \u003cdiv class=\"grid__item large--one-half review\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n \n \u003cdiv class=\"grid__item large--one-half review\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Turner, Alex and Lucian Childs","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":66804802814067,"sku":"9781778526411","price":32.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/2207\/files\/9781778526411.jpg?v=1791291212","url":"https:\/\/ecwpress.com\/products\/confluence","provider":"ECW Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}