A Great Consolation (eBook, ePUB)

Survive! Survive! & Crossing the Gulf of Misfortune

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Survive! Survive! transports readers to September 1935, to glorious, tragic times in the company of Ti-Lou and "la Duchesse" Édouard, whose sparkling exchanges hide indissoluble pain; to sombre, twilight times with Victoire and Télesphore and between Josaphat and his ill-fated daughter. "How to survive?" they all ask, inextricably caught in life's cycle of lost illusions and forgotten dreams.

The series closes in August 1941 with Crossing the Gulf of Misfortune, when a grieving Nana and her family must share an apartment with Victoire and Édouard as well as with Albertine and her children. Outside this unbearably crowded household, war rages and rationing rules over daily life. But in a year, in May 1942, Nana - the Fat Woman Next Door - seven months pregnant, will open the fabulous Chronicles of the Plateau-Mont-Royal ...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Talonbooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781772015072
• Artikelnr.: 74717637

Autorenporträt

A major figure in Québec literature, Michel Tremblay has built an impressive body of work as a playwright, novelist, translator, and screenwriter. To date Tremblay's complete works include forty-one plays, thirty novels, seven collections of autobiographical stories, a collection of tales, seven screenplays, forty-seven translations and adaptations of works by foreign writers, ten plays and fifteen stories printed in diverse publications, an opera libretto, a song cycle, a Symphonic Christmas Tale, and two musicals. His plays have been published and translated into forty languages and have garnered critical acclaim in Canada, the United States, and more than fifty countries around the world. He lives in Montréal.