HEART'S LONGING: NEWFOUNDLAND, NEW YORK AND THE DISTANCE HOME. by O'Toole, Lawrence

Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, (1994), Ist edition. 200 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "(A) memoir of an unusal kind: it is about one person's search for home, told in a rich blend of biography, fiction, history and travel. The search for home, for his heart's longing, takes writer Lawrence O'Toole back to his roots in Newfoundland, where he grew up in 'what is commonly viewed as a backwater culture'. He left it for Toronto, where he became the dance critic for the 'Gobe and Mail' and later the film critic for 'Maclean's', before ending up 'on another island, Manhattan', the place he now calls home. The search for a place where he belongs has drawn him to the bleaker areas of the world where people are poor and isolated - not unlike his homeland. He also describes his life as a gay man in New York and Fire Island in the age of AIDS." Light wrinkling at bottom of spine. Dust jacket has very light wrinkling at bottom of spine, light rubbing on rear panel. VG+/VG.