Literary legend and four-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award Marie-Claire Blais delivers the latest installment in her ongoing portrait of life in contemporary North America. In...
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Author: Blais, Marie-ClaireSummary:Genre: General fiction, Canadian fiction -
Author: Blais, Marie-ClaireSummary:Known internationally as an award-winning Québecois novelist, Marie-Claire Blais has remained hidden as a dramatist from Anglophone readers. Nigel Spencer's first-ever translation recreates Blais...
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Author: Blais, Marie-Claire, Spencer, NigelSummary:In the latest installment in her award-winning series, Marie-Claire Blais reintroduces us to Petites Cendres, familiar from other books in the cycle, and lets us into the lives of two other...
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Author: Blais, Marie-Claire, Spencer, NigelSummary:With this astounding fourth novel in her ongoing series of contemporary masterpieces (These Festive Nights, Thunder and Light, Augustino and the Choir of Destruction, and Rebecca, Born in the...
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Author: Blais, Marie-Claire, Spencer, NigelSummary:What anxiety grips Petites Cendres as he runs towards the sea in the sunshine on a warm tropical morning? Shouldn’t he be reassured by the thought that he now lives at the Acacia Gardens, a...
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Author: Bégin, Monique, Théry, Chantal, Bersianik, Louky, Blais, Marie-Claire, Gagnon, Gabriel, Gagnon, Madeleine, Marcotte, Gilles, Rocher, GuySummary:En 1938, Jeanne Lapointe est la première jeune laïque diplômée de la toute nouvelle Faculté des lettres de l’Université Laval et la première récipiendaire de la médaille d’or (pour ses études de...
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Author: Blais, Marie-ClaireSummary:
Following the life of newborn infant, Emmanuel, this great contemporary novel of Quebec exposes a painful history central to the new consciousness that emerged in the 1960s known as “the quiet...
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Author: Blais, Marie-Claire, Dorion, HélèneSummary:
Voici une nouvelle édition de Jours de sable, premier récit d'un triptyque que complètent L'étreinte des vents et Recommencements. L'écrivaine Hélène Dorion nous émeut...
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Author: Blais, Marie-ClaireSummary:
In the penultimate installment of the magnificent and ambitious Soifs cycle, widely regarded as one of the most original and ambitious endeavors ever to be undertaken in contemporary literature,...
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Author: Blais, Marie-Claire, Spencer, NigelSummary:In Augustino and the Choir of Destrucion literary legend and three-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award Marie-Claire Blais delivers the third volume in the prize-winning series (...
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Author: Blais, Marie-ClaireSummary:
René suddenly feels like an old man. In his 90s, recovering at home after an illness, his mind will not leave the past. He is both comforted and annoyed by the officious care provided by his...
Genre: General fiction