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Anthony Oliveira
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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.
Critic reviews
“Ambitiously and audaciously, Anthony Oliveira transforms scripture into a poetic and erotic queer love story. Dayspring crosses centuries and genres, bends fan fiction into dazzling verse, and mixes the sacred and the profane with the sublime and the perverse. In a sly nod to red letter bibles, Oliveira uses blood-coloured ink to render the words of Jesus, who emerges as fallible and playful, horny and tender. With the heft of a tome, the lure of a page-turner, and the sweep of an epic poem, Dayspring is an effervescent and poignant work about love and humanity.”
—2024 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers jury (Jillian Christmas, Adam Garnet Jones, and Hazel Jane Plante)
"What can one say about a masterpiece? Refracting and recombining Christ's journey in the Gospels with the contemporary queer experience—very often the author's own—Anthony Oliveira commingles the earthly and the divine in a deliciously daring work that defies categorization. God is love, we are told, and Dayspring celebrates and interrogates that love in all its forms, illuminating the sacred and the profane in equal measure. Bracing and breathtaking, it is a glorious gift to the soul and the senses. This is a magnificent debut!"
—David Demchuk, author of Red X
“Anthony Oliveira’s literary debut delivers a deluge of erotic and sensuous love that challenges our expectations of religious devotion. ‘the body is a leaky vessel’ announces the beloved disciple in a melancholic meditation on the crucifixion, and Dayspring, in all its carnality, overflows with the passion of Oliveira’s appeal for a Christian love that is unapologetically queer. In a masterful display of literary experimentation that explodes the boundary between verse and prose and that shuttles its readers between pre- and postmodernity, Dayspring highlights the eroticism of the Christian mystical tradition and, like Hadewijch, Mechthild, and Teresa before it, teaches that ecstatic love can be both joyful and excruciatingly painful, sacred and profane, human and divine.”
—Kris J. Trujillo, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Director of Studies, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, The University of Chicago
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- A Novel
- By: Garth Greenwell
- Narrated by: Garth Greenwell
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind. This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value—art, memory, poetry, music, care—are thrown into sharp relief.
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A Masterpiece
- By Herluf Kanstrup on 09-22-24
By: Garth Greenwell
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Rejection
- Fiction
- By: Tony Tulathimutte
- Narrated by: Micky Shiloah, Allyson Ryan, Quincy Surasmith, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the touchiest problems of modern life. The seven connected stories seamlessly transition between the personal crises of a complex ensemble and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity, and the internet.
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Trigger warning for one chapter, otherwise really creative
- By Amazon Customer on 10-06-24
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Our Evenings
- A Novel
- By: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrated by: Prasanna Puwanarajah
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
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Dave Win, the son of a Burmese man he’s never met and a British dressmaker, is thirteen years old when he gets a scholarship to a top boarding school. With the doors of elite English society cracked open for him, heady new possibilities emerge, even as Dave is exposed to the envy and viciousness of his wealthy classmates.
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The writing, the pace.
- By Susan on 11-22-24
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Long Island Compromise
- A Novel
- By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
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In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the saga of the American dream, comforted in the realization that though their money may have been what endangered them, it is also what assured them their safety.
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We need more from Taffy Brodesser-Akner!
- By Ximena Enriquez on 08-31-24
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- Lloyd J Calegan
- 07-10-24
An overwhelming experience
Reading the book alone would have been an illuminating experience, but reading along with this flawless narration raises it even higher.
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- Andy Randolph
- 05-05-24
The Unholy Divine
This book feels like it was written *for me* in a way no other book ever has. It is beautiful, funny, horny, sacrilegious, sincere, devout, and unflinchingly honest. The recording does a tremendous job bringing it to life. I am extremely grateful it exists and cannot wait to reread it.
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- J.
- 11-23-24
Your mileage will vary
what this ultimately comes down to is a thesis regarding our experience with the world and what happens when the profane and the prophetic collide. this is not a mere retelling of Christian scriptures, but a tale of connection and finding family. it is a genuinely queer work. as I put in the title, this will not be for everyone and your mileage will vary depending on your personal views and prior experiences. this book combines and rice at her most lowered and her most pious, and I mean that with the highest praise possible.
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- Nanci White
- 04-19-24
An Excellent Marriage of Story and Art
This book reminds me that the Gospel is both shocking and beautiful. Well informed. Well written. Well performed.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-28-24
In love with gay Jesus
I’m a 40 year old ex-vangelical gay-thiest.
Which is to say I grew up loving Jesus but had it beat out of me after coming out of the closet.
That said, gosh this book was beautiful!
It’s not that it’s just a partial view of the gospels written with two men in love. The face that it’s finally told, erotically, truthfully, and completely is what means so much.
Maybe this won’t be a hit with everyone. But I highly reccomend the audio version of this tale.
Thanks for sharing it Anthony!
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