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No Safeguards

H. Nigel Thomas

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English
Guernica Editions,Canada
06 November 2015
No Safeguards, the first in a trilogy, follows Jay and his brother Paul from childhood to young adulthood. We witness the destructive impact of fundamentalist Christian beliefs on their mother and father, opposition to those beliefs by the boys' grandmother and each boy's very different response to their parents' religiosity. This becomes even more poignant after they leave their grandmother's comfortable home in St. Vincent to join their mother in Montreal. The revelation that both boys are gay adds to their sense of oppression and divides them from their mother, whose views are shaped by the church and the theology of the Torah.
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Imprint:   Guernica Editions,Canada
Country of Publication:   Canada
Volume:   113
Dimensions:   Height: 228mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   467g
ISBN:   9781550719840
ISBN 10:   155071984X
Series:   Essential Prose Series
Pages:   375
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

H. Nigel Thomas grew up in St Vincent and the Grenadines but moved to Montreal in 1968. He is the author of 11 books and dozens of essays. His novels Spirits in the Dark and No Safeguards were shortlisted for the Quebec Writers Federation Hugh MacLennan Fiction Prize. Des vies Cassees (the translation of Lives: Whole and Otherwise) was shortlisted for le Prix Carbet des Lyceens. He holds the 2000 Professional of the Year Jackie Robinson Award, the 2013 Universite Laval's Hommage aux createurs, and the 2020 Black Theatre Workshop's Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award. The Canadian High Commission to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean States deems him to be one of Canada's outstanding immigrants from St Vincent and the Grenadines. His books Behind the Face of Winter and Lives: Whole and Otherwise have been translated into French.

Reviews for No Safeguards

""Nigel Thomas' ... understanding of the many histories and their various impacts on literary characters reveals a profound knowledge of the human condition. A compelling, layered, and persuasive work."" -- Rawi Hage


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