Hovering World (Paperback)

A day-in-the-life novel o but what a day, what a life Peter Dube's first novel, Hovering World, moves effortlessly from sunlight to midnight and far beyond, in passages that are by turns haunting and haunted, surreal and erotic. The arrival of a photo of an angel sets off a quest of sorts, and along the way we encounter a general named Disarray, essays in art theory, moments of passionate obsession in both the streets of the city and the eopaque corridorsi of a gay sauna.

Hovering World is queer in all the best senses of the word o non-conformist, eccentric, dissenting, crazed, aberrant and, of course, invaluable. An unforgettable debut.

oWill Aitken, author of Realia

Critical Comment

iDube easily conveys not only the awe and anxiety that goes with a spiritual awakening, but also the futility of trying to contain that awakening, or even convey it, within the margins of a photograph, or the pages of a book.i

o Sue McCluskey, This Magazine, 2003

iDube offers the reader a full spectrum of angels, fallen and otherwise.i

o Poppy Wilkinson, Montreal Review of Books, 2003