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050	0	0	_aPR9369.3.G28 _bI5 2010
082	0	0	_aFIC GAL
100	1		_aGalgut, Damon, 1963-
245	1	0	_aIn a strange room _c/ Damon Galgut
260			_aNew York _b: Europe Editions _c, 2010.
300			_a207 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aWriting from both first- and third-person perspectives, Galgut firmly places his audience into the action as it's happening to the young Damon; then, rather disconcertingly, he reflects upon his younger self from a distance of many years. We meet a rootless man, born in South Africa yet not at home there, wandering the world neither searching for nor escaping from anything. He travels through Greece, India, and Africa, picking up and shaking off companions along the way, seemingly incapable of forging meaningful connections. There is sexual tension with Reiner, a beautiful young man who follows him to a hostel in Greece, and the potential for a relationship with a Swiss soldier that doesn't come to fruition. His only long-term friendship, with Anna, breaks under the crushing stranglehold of the bipolar disorder that threatens her life.
650			_aYoung men _v--Fiction
650		0	_aTravelers _x--Fiction.
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