The Supreme Orchestra - Couverture souple

Turgeon, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1552453758 ISBN 13 : 9781552453759

Editeur : Coach House Books, 2023

Synopsis

We know how Simone met the man who will become, for a time, her fourth husband. We know what she does (artist), her age (older than she looks), her friends (a veritable menagerie), her habits (frustrated homebody). What remains to learn are the things she still doesn't fully understand herself, like her role in the affair of the Port Merveille diamond, also known as the Supreme Orchestra.

The Supreme Orchestra is many things at once: a geopolitical thriller, an art-world exposé, a digressive social study, a mischievous parody. In the line of master ironists like Walser and Nabokov, with a comic timing reminiscent of Hergé and a Flaubertian infatuation with le mot juste, David Turgeon has created an oeuvre like no other in Quebec's fertile literary scene.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

David Turgeon is the author of four novels, Simone au travail (translated as The Supreme Orchestra), Le continent de plastique (finalist, Prix littéraire des collégiens), La revanche de l'écrivaine fantôme, and Les bases secrètes. He has also published several graphic novels, a collection of essays on comics, and, most recently, À propos du style de Genette, a non-fiction meditation on the French theorist's literary style (Le Quartanier, 2018). David Turgeon is a founding member of Tristesse magazine. He lives in Montreal.

Pablo Strauss grew up in British Columbia and now makes his home in Quebec City. He has translated several works of fiction from Quebec, including Maxime Ray-mond Bock's Baloney (Coach House Books, 2016).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Coach House Books
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1552453758
• ISBN 13: 9781552453759
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 220
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• Personne responsable: non disponible