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Paperback Tom at the Farm Book

ISBN: 0889227594

ISBN13: 9780889227590

Tom à la ferme

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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 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.

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Haunting

A beautifully written portrayal of unhealthy queer love. It’s raw, painful, and uncomfortable, it reminds me of the saying that something is like watching a train wreck—you just can’t look away, even though it’s horrific. I’ve reread the script a dozen times, I’ve been in love with the story for a couple years now. I highly recommend it, as well as its movie adaptation by Xavier Dolan.
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