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Oscar of Between : a Memoir of Identity and Ideas by Betsy Warland is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Oscar of Between : a Memoir of Identity and Ideas about?
In 2007, at the age of sixty, Betsy Warland finds herself single and without a sense of family. On an impulse, she decides to travel to London to celebrate her birthday, where she experiences an odd compulsion to see an exhibit on the invention of military camouflage. Within the first five minutes of her visit, her lifelong feeling of being aberrant reveals its source: she had never learned the art of camouflage. This marked the beginning of Oscar of Between: A Memoir of Identity and Ideas. Taking the name Oscar, she embarks on an intimate, nine-year quest by telling her story as "a person of between." As Oscar, she is able to make sense of her self and the culture that shaped her. She traces this experience of in-betweenness from her childhood in the rural Midwest, through to her first queer kiss in 1978, divorce, coming out, writing life. In 1984, she and her lover wrote lesbian erotic love poetry collections in dialogue with one another, the first and only tandem collections on this subject in English Canada. After the two split, she experienced years of unacknowledged exclusion from a community in which she thought she belonged. In the process of writing Oscar's story, Warland
Who reads Oscar of Between : a Memoir of Identity and Ideas?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Betsy Warland
- Publisher
- Dagger Editions (an imprint of Caitlin Press)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781987915167
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (15 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
