À vingt ans, Ariane Morency s'interroge sur son avenir. Son jeune idéalisme vient se heurter au cynisme de son père, un artiste désabusé, qui croit que « le bonheur, c'est une belle ordure ». Pendant qu'ils discutent, la vie va, semant...
Canadian literature
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Auteur:Chaput, SimoneSommaire: - Auteur:Desjardins, SergineSommaire:
Nous sommes en 1847. Alors que les lépreux sont transférés de l’île Sheldrake au nouveau lazaret de Tracadie, Isa, toujours bien portante, perd espoir. Bien que la maladie ne semble avoir aucune emprise sur la jeune femme, l’isolement,...
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Auteur:Sommaire:"A groundbreaking anthology from territory that is now known as Saskatchewan, Kisiskâciwan contains rich, oral narratives from Cree, Saulteaux, Nakoda, Dakota, Dene, Gros Ventres, and Métis cultures; speeches and letters by Treaty...
- Auteur:Houde, NicoleSommaire:
Dans ce roman, son onzième livre, Nicole Houde fait évoluer ses personnages à l’époque de la Crise des années trente, dans les villages de l’Anse-Saint-Jean et de Saint-Fulgence, près de Chicoutimi, des usines de l’Alcan et des...
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Auteur:Seymour, DavidSommaire:Shortlisted for the 2006 Gerald Lampert Award
Inter Alia is the long-awaited first collection by one of Canada’s most talented young poets. His work has been widely published in journals and was selected by Lorna Crozier...
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Auteur:Authers, Benjamin, Snauwaert, Maïté, Laforest, Daniel, Braz, Albert, Delisle, Jennifer, Gaboury-Diallo, Lise, Kamboureli, Smaro, Korkka, Janne, Lamontagne, André, Mackey, Margaret, Sing, Pamela, Wunker, ErinSommaire:This book examines the cultural work of space and memory in Canada and Canadian literature, and encourages readers to investigate Canada within its regional, national, and global contexts. It features seven chapters in English and five...
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Auteur:Gladstone, AmielSommaire:Hippies and Bolsheviks and Other Plays collects three works by Amiel Gladstone, introducing a wide range of fascinating characters and a formidable new voice in Canadian drama. In The Wedding Pool, three single friends in unsatisfactory...
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Auteur:Christie, EvieSommaire:Gutted, Evie Christie’s powerful and harrowing debut, pulses with the rhythms of life, loss, and love. Energized with the language of now and the wide scope of popular culture, while dwelling in Yeats’ “foul rag and bone shop...
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Auteur:Knowles, MikeSommaire:Bullets squared everything. Wilson left his old boss alive in exchange for a clean slate. Wilson held up his end of the bargain and stayed off the grid for two years. Two years of peace until a man came calling. The man brought a gun...
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Auteur:Bloomfield, DacciaSommaire:A great love comes with bells... Flip is an unemployed writer with a heart of gold and limited social skills--he's also very much in love. And you? You're invited to witness the carnage' . It's a story we're all familiar with: just as...
- Auteur:Lavallée, FrançoisSommaire:
On s’en veut toujours, pour mille et une raisons. Par jour. Est-il possible de se libérer de ce sentiment de culpabilité? En fait, pour bien des gens, on dirait que la dureté envers soi-même est une sorte de vertu. Et fatalement, quand...
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The materials we turn to for the construction of our literary pasts - the texts, performances, and discussions selected for storage and cataloguing in archives - shape what we know and teach about literature today. The ways in which...
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Auteur:Morrison, KatherineSommaire:On a 300-year journey through the historical, political and sociological milieux of Canada and the United States, Morrison examines national views of the past, nature, place and home, religion, violence and the law, humor and satire,...
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Auteur:Colombo, John RobertSommaire:Here is a list of three dozen of the top literary locales in the country. The selection of sites is necessarily subjective, yet it attempts to represent geographical, historical, social and cultural concerns as well as strictly literary...
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"An anthology of African-Canadian writing, Black Writing Matters offers a cross-section of established writers and newcomers to the literary world who tackle contemporary and pressing issues with beautiful, sometimes raw, prose. As...
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Auteur:Baetz, JoelSommaire:For Canadians, the First World War was a dynamic period of literary activity. Almost every poet wrote about the war, critics made bold predictions about the legacy of the period’s poetry, and booksellers were told it was their duty to...
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Auteur:Betts, Gregory, Bök, ChristianSommaire:Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard Cohen and bpNichol to that of Jordan...
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Auteur:Mount, NickSommaire:In the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an enormous cultural phenomenon that produced Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Mordecai Richler, and so many...
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Auteur:Szumigalski, Anne, Abley, MarkSommaire:Collected for the first time, the most powerful writing, poetry and otherwise, created by Anne Szumigalski, Governor General's Award-winning poet from Saskatchewan.
Anne Szumigalski, renowned for her breakout poetry collection...
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Auteur:Simpson-Housley, Paul, Norcliffe, Glen B.Sommaire:In 1759, Voltaire in Candide referred to Canada as "quelques arpents de neige." For several centuries, the image prevailed and was the one most frequently used by poets, writers, and illustrators. Canada was perceived and portrayed as a...
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