Tom at the Farm by Michel Marc Bouchard

Tom at the Farm by Michel Marc Bouchard

Following the accidental death of his lover, and in the throes of his grief, urban ad executive Tom travels to the country to attend the funeral and to meet his mother-in-law, Agatha, and her son, Francis - neither of whom know Tom even exists. Arriving at the remote rural farm, and immediately drawn into the dysfunction of the family's relationships, Tom is blindsided by his lost partner's legacy of untruth. With the mother expecting a chainsmoking girlfriend, and the older brother hellbent on preserving a facade of normalcy, Tom is coerced into joining the duplicity until, at last, he confronts the torment that drove his lover to live in the shadows of deceit.

The lover - the friend, the son, the brother, the nameless dead man - has left behind a fable woven of false-truths which, according to his own teenage diaries, were essential to his survival. In this same rural setting, one young man had once destroyed another young man who loved yet another. Like an ancient tragedy, years later, this drama will shape the destiny of Tom.

In a play that unfolds with progressively blurred boundaries between lust and brutality, between truth and elaborate action, Bouchard dramatizes how gay men often must learn to lie before they learn how to love. Throughout 2011 and 2012, Tom at the Farm was produced in Quebec and France, as Tom a la ferme, and in Mexico, as Tom en la granja. Award-winning Quebec director Xavier Dolan adapted the play for the screen in 2013, with Caleb Landry Jones in the leading role.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780889227590
ISBN 10	0889227594
Title	Tom at the Farm
Author	Michel Marc Bouchard
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Talonbooks
Year published	2012-07-12
Number of pages	96
Prizes	Winner of Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Drama 2014 (United States)
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.