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Description
Employing a sort of leaping or mosaic structure and incorporating e-mails re penis-enlargement, questionable limericks, jokes, graffiti and a photo of a "penis latte," along with personal anecdotes and probes of books and films, Deep Too is a book of non-fiction stories. It is a funny and sometimes biting book about the phenomenon of male strut and competition. Thinking with feeling, the author posits an expansive masculinity that rises above stereotype, traditional roles and the either/or choices they so often involve.
Editorial Review
In Deep Too, Stan Dragland takes a long, hard look at the penis joke. To the work of illuminating pain, he puts his enormous heart and brilliant mind, his ever-ready wit, and a lambent prose that truly glows from within. – Marina Endicott, author of The Little Shadows
on Journeys Through Bookland and Other Passages Those familiar with Stan Dragland’s work recognize an author who works in protean literary forms. . . . in this new book stan dragland reveals a different side of growing up. Journeys Through Bookland is about how we educate ourselves and the influences that guide us – fairy tales, individual teachers, family life, dreams and nightmares. stan dragland is at his most moving in this book. he makes fiction out of all these sources, so that by the end an individual and a true voice emerge. – Michael Ondaatje
on Stormy Weather: Foursomes This book is like a fine old song that overflows with tenderness and hardwon wisdom. A true and perfect companion for every weather. – Elizabeth Hay
on The Drowned Lands Dragland has Cormac McCarthy’s gentle humour and affinity for magnificent landscapes, and, like Virginia Woolf, an ability to pierce the most intimate thoughts of his characters. Here is emotion as fast-flickering and dazzling as sunlight on water. The Drowned Lands is a deeply affecting story, beautifully told. – Lisa Moore
