Alain épouse Virginie en la crypte de l'oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal. En apparence, ce sera le plus beau jour de sa vie - de leur vie. Tout le monde est là, les parents de la mariée, la grande amie, les parents du narrateur -...
Literary fiction
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Author:Farah, ÀlainSummary: - Author:Bowdring, PaulSummary:
After a thirty-year exile in Toronto, self-described "mid-listing" Newfoundland author James Nightingale leaves behind a failed marriage to a successful classical musician, who has taken up with an avant-garde composer, and a middling,...
- Author:Woolf, VirginiaSummary:
In this vivid portrait of a single day in a woman’s life, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of preparation for a party while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she...
- Author:Davies, RobertsonSummary:
Connor Gilmartin's inauspicious, but much beloved, mortal life comes to an untimely end when he discovers his wife in bed with one of his more ludicrous associates, Randall Allard Going. Death becomes a bit complicated when...
- Author:Ferrante, ElenaSummary:
The story begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets, the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow--and as their paths...
- Author:Ozeki, Ruth L.Summary:
With reality, humor, and a message about corporate greed, Ozeki weaves together the story of two women a world apart. The lives of Jane in America and Akiko in Japan intersect through beef, love, television, and fertility.
- Author:Barbeau-Lavalette, AnaïsSummary:
The lives of three families intersect in the hallways of an apartment block in a Montreal neighborhood. Kevin lives in 62. His mom took off but it's okay because his dad's a wrestler and he always wins. Even when he gets laid...
- Author:Nichol, B. P.Summary:
The long-lost fiction of avant-garde hero bpNichol collected into one groundbreaking volume. Nights on Prose Mountain gathers all of beloved writer bpNichol's published fiction. Originally appearing between 1968 and 1983, and...
- Author:Birdsong, Destiny O.Summary:
Suzette, Maple, and Agnes, three Black women with albinism, call Shreveport, Louisiana, home. At the crossroads of the American South and Southwest, these women find themselves at the crossroads of their own lives.
- Author:Smith, RussellSummary:
A fast-paced comic extravaganza and from the author of the runaway bestseller and Governor General's Award-nominated How Insensitive. 'Noise takes on the kind of high-jinx romantic comedy loved by Hollywood.' — Quill & Quire Set in...
- Author:Strout, ElizabethSummary:
In a voice more powerful and compassionate than ever before, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout binds together thirteen rich, luminous narratives into a book with the heft of a novel, through the presence of one larger-...
- Author:Shteyngart, GarySummary:
"A perfect novel for these times and all times, the single textual artifact from the pandemic era I would place in a time capsule as a representation of all that is good and true and beautiful about literature."--Molly Young,...
- Author:Dennis-Benn, NicoleSummary:
When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfield, the beautiful but impoverished Jamaican town where she was raised. More than anything, Patsy wishes to be reunited with her oldest...
- Author:Rulfo, JuanSummary:
"Desconcertante, lista a inquietar a la crítica, está ya en los escaparates la primera novela de Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo, que transcurre en una serie de transposiciones oníricas, ahondando más allá de la muerte de sus...
- Author:Jackson, JennySummary:
A New York Times bestseller | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick Chosen as a best book of the year by The New York Tim es | Time | NPR | USA Today | Elle | Harper's Bazaar | Town & Country | Vogue | BBC | POPSUGAR |...
- Author:Jackson, JennySummary:
Darley, the eldest daughter in the Stockton family, has never worried about money. The product of generational wealth and capitalist success, Darley renounced her inheritance when she married Malcolm, a first generation Korean American...
- Author:Clarke, SusannaSummary:
From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors...
- Author:McCabe, PatSummary:
A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue by the Booker-shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on PlutoUna Fogarty, suffering from dementia in a seaside nursing home, would be all alone without her brother Dan, whose...
- Author:Byatt, A. S.Summary:
As a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets uncover their letters, journals, & poems, & trace their movements from London to Yorkshire-and from spiritualist seances to the fairy-haunted far west of...
- Author:Veilleux, MaudeSummary:
Winter blankets Montreal, while a bookseller and her lover dream of Prague. As the narrator's open marriage becomes the subject of a novel, reality blurs with fiction, and she tries to reconcile the need to create with the desire for...
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