Antonine Maillet

• Apr-1987
• / General Fiction
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Aventuress-skipper Crache a Pic, whose name means "spit in your eye," and her crew of Joe Colossus, Jimmy the Flea, and old Celeste try to wrest control of the bootlegging trade from the old pirates who work the Prohibition run...

• Dec-1987
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• Oct-1989
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• Apr-2004
• / Historical
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In 1979, the legendary Acadian novelist Antonine Maillet won France's most coveted literary award, the Prix Goncourt, for the original version of this novel, Pélagie-la-Charette. In her acceptance speech, she said, "I have avenged my ancestors...

• May-2006
• / Literary
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In On the Eighth Day, Antonine Maillet imagines a solution to the world's problems: a wider and more exuberant world, with its right more left and its left more right, created on "the day when everything is dared and anything is possible." She spi...

• Sep-2006
• / Literary
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The premise is deceptively simple: a dirt-poor charwoman and former prostitute leans on her mop and tells her life story. But what a story! As she reminisces and rants, telling stories about herself, her friends and neighbours, the priest and his chu...