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 revolution. The story of Emmanuel and his 15 brothers and sisters spotlights the grinding poverty under the mental regime of the Catholic Church at its least enlightened and most inescapable. This insightful narrative documents the hardships and cruelties of their social condition with dark humor and passionate imagination as they endeavor to survive harsh schools, dreary convents, and hunger."
Following the life of newborn infant, Emmanuel, this great contemporary novel of Quebec exposes a painful history central to the new consciousness tha...
Pauline tells her personal story of growing up through paradoxes and insightsthat blend social, religious, and moral textures.Her world is populated by people who turn to violence or sink into quiet despairit is a world damned. Pauline, her family, schoolmates, teachers, and friends are driven by tempestuous individual imperatives and the social deprivation they encounter. Full of satire, fantasy, energy, and lyricism, this chronicleportrays a reality that neither poetry, nor dreams, nor Pauline s fantasies can weaken."
Pauline tells her personal story of growing up through paradoxes and insightsthat blend social, religious, and moral textures.Her world is populated b...
Exploring contemporary life and the penetrating energy of youth, this novel follows Anna, an introspective, alienated teenager without hope. Anna and her friend Michelle have experienced what life today has to offerthey have experimented with drugs and sex and have taken dance and music lessons in an attempt to find some meaning in their existenceand yet they have rejected its premise and insteadremain alone and empty.Chilling and often terrifying, this chronicle portrays two young women whoare not bored butare instead without hope of finding peace or even living long enough to begin the...
Exploring contemporary life and the penetrating energy of youth, this novel follows Anna, an introspective, alienated teenager without hope. Anna and ...
Through Genevievea woman struggling with an idealistic vision of lovea door is opened into the lives of the characters through which Marie-Claire Blais came to the forefront of feminism in Canada. Night after night in a club called The Underground, Genevieve and her friends live out their loves and their tragedies apart from the day-to-day life of the city. Each glance, each embrace, and each ensuing encounter weaves a profound matrix of human isolation, with transcendence found in the healing power of love."
Through Genevievea woman struggling with an idealistic vision of lovea door is opened into the lives of the characters through which Marie-Claire Blai...
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 comfortable home where all find care, understanding, and healing? How can Fleur, the young musical prodigy, listen to the diabolical confessions of Wrath, the fugitive priest, without shuddering? And, can Daniel the writer finish his novel, the one he has been working on for twenty years, despite his sensitivity and empathy for all creatures, even if they are the most humble, like the lizard he...
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 tha...