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Blair Purvis

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Blair's work is concerned with desire, geography, and the slow, difficult business of being known — with the distance between the private and public versions of a man, and what it costs to close it.

Blair was born in Melbourne to Scottish parents and grew up in the city’s outer east. He has lived in Europe and spent considerable time in the Americas — both North & Central. He’s travelled widely through the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, places that take centre stage in his work. He returned to Melbourne, where he writes, publishes, edits and engineers sound for community radio.

Blair is a gay man and a father of two, raised in a co-parenting arrangement that he would recommend to anyone with the inkling for it.

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	Have Colourful Dreams, Sir by Masoud Shakarami (Goodreads Author), Blair Purvis (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kioomars Ghanbari Azar (Translator) 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Blair Purvis's Blog: Incoherent Ramblings of a Writer

Don’t Box Me In

We love defining people and slotting them into preconceived definitions – almost like matching odd-shaped blocks to similarly shaped holes.

We do it to race, religion, sexuality and, thanks to this moronically defined generational tagging, age: What’s a Boomer? Why does Gen X behave so aloofly? Gen Y or Millennials – why the name change? And who changed it?

If, indeed, it is a study in sociology, wh

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The Line of Beauty

by Alan Hollinghurst

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In Tongues: A Novel

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Sourcebooks Casablanca Free Fall An MMF Dark Forbidden Billionaire Romance (Wilde Boys Book 2).

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