Swallowed - Couverture souple

DuCharme, Réjean

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1550655531 ISBN 13 : 9781550655537

Editeur : Esplanade Books, 2021

Synopsis

In 1966, Réjean Ducharme, then a 24-year-old unknown, published L'Avalée des avalés, this debut novel that would go on to serve as a zeitgeist for several generations of French-Canadian readers. At nine years old, Berenice feels trapped by home, family, and dogmas both real and invented. Precocious and over-intelligent, she despises her dysfunctional parents too viciously, loves her brother Christian too passionately, and follows the logical pirouettes of her imagination to conclusions too dangerous. She lives on a secluded island, where she hatches plans to run away with Christian and escape her mother's needy overtures for affection. When on the cusp of puberty Berenice becomes too wild for even her parents to control, she's sent to live in New York with her father's ultra-religious relatives where, pushed to confine her impulses, she instead forces herself forward to new extremes.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Réjean Ducharme (1941-2017) published nine novels, as well as two screenplays, from 1966 to 1990. He won Canada's Governor General Literary Award three times. Famously reclusive, he never spoke to the media or appeared in public, and only three photos of him are publicly available. Ducharme is a pioneering figure of modern Québécois fiction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Esplanade Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1550655531
• ISBN 13: 9781550655537
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
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• Personne responsable: non disponible