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Blais, Marie-Claire

 
9781770890053: Mai at the Predators' Ball
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 177089005X ISBN 13 : 9781770890053
Editeur : House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada, 2012

Synopsis

Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award: Translation. Shortlisted for the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation.

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 this swirling fresco, we meet unforgettable characters, some familiar from previous works, some new. This time, Blais lets us into the consciousness of fifteen-year-old Mai, an unusually perceptive young woman whose uncensored observations on femininity and youth, freedom and constraint belie her age. And, in the Porte du Baiser Saloon, we meet a group of boys who adorn themselves in colourful dresses and wigs before they take to the stage to sing and dance every evening after darkness falls. They open their arms to those who are excluded -- both men and women, triumphant and threatened, both free and bound.

With this astonishing new novel, Blais gives us a remarkable chronicle of our modern age teeming with characters who seem to represent the whole of humanity. She invites us to share the drama of perfect joy, the tragedy of happiness, and she gives us her best work yet.

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À propos des auteurs

MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS (1939-2021) was the internationally revered author of more than twenty-five books, many of which have been published around the world. In addition to the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, which she won four times, Blais was awarded the Gilles-Corbeil Prize, the Médicis Prize, the Molson Prize, and several Guggenheim Fellowships. Marie-Claire Blais divided her time between Florida and Quebec.



Nigel Spencer is Marie-Claire Blais' longtime translator and a three-time Governor General's Literary Award winner. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

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Éditeur
House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
177089005X
ISBN 13 
9781770890053
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
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