Dayspring
Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira, published by McClelland & Stewart on April 2, 2024, is a 432-page work that presents a bold retelling of biblical tales intertwined with a contemporary coming-of-age narrative. This debut novel explores themes of love, loss, and survival, connecting stories across millennia while examining the complexities of desire and grief through a unique lens.
Readers will find that Dayspring weaves together elements of fiction, memoir, and verse, creating a rich tapestry that re-examines significant figures from scripture and history. The narrative delves into the trials of modern life, offering a fresh perspective on sacred and profane experiences. With its poetic attention to form, this work invites exploration of the intersections between the past and present, making it a significant addition to LGBTQ+ literary fiction.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE 2024 DAYNE OGILVIE PRIZE FOR LGBTQ2S+ EMERGING WRITERS • One of Indigo’s Top 10 Literary Fiction Books of 2024 and Top 100 Books of 2024 • One of CBC’s Best Canadian Fiction of 2024
A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre—at once a bold retelling of biblical tales and an unforgettable contemporary coming-of-age story, connected in collapsing time across millennia.
There are few love stories in the holy books. Love is what ruins. Love is what costs. Love is a flaming sword at our backs, a garden left to ruin and to wild.
In Dayspring, Anthony Oliveira brings to vibrant, glorious life the gospel according to the disciple Christ loved—his companion in the days before the crucifixion, the only instrument that remembers with fidelity his sound.
Sacred, profane, and rich with explicit desire and a poetic attention to form, Dayspring weaves electric and heart-wrenching stories of passion, grief, destruction, and survival into a narrative unmoored in space and time, one that re-examines and re-frames great and doomed figures from scripture and history, even as it casts its keen eye on the trials of modern life.
Seamlessly blending fiction, memoir, and verse in the exhilarating tradition of Anne Carson and Madeline Miller, Dayspring is an immersive, mesmerizing work, one that wrenches beauty from cataclysm and finds bliss in apocalypse.
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