France Daigle

• Nov-1998
• / General Fiction
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Real life is lived in fragments. In France Daigle's novel the characters struggle to make sense out of this fragmented world, to find meaning. Daigle gives us hyper-reality by intertwining threads of highly charged moments in a story brimming with ir...

• Oct-2002
• / General Fiction
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In France Daigle's Governor General's Award-winning novel, Just Fine, the townsfolk of Dieppe dream of escape from the insular, predictable cadences of life in Acadia, and, each in their own often touching and hilarious way, changes the course of the...

• Mar-2005
• / Historical
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France Daigle casts a droll eye on what it means to be born a writer in the middle of the twentieth century. 1953 crackles with wit, intelligence, and insight, and the year in question emerges as a turning point not only for the heroine, but also for...

• Apr-2005
• / Literary
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In this delightful novel, both humankind's smallest problems and largest questions occupy the same delightful stage. Terry's on-and-off job allows him to take care of his baby son, Etienne, while wife Carmen works as a waitress and aspiring manager o...

• Feb-2013
• / Literary
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Just Fine traces the mishaps and misadventures of a conflicted agoraphobe: a woman psychologically restricted to a life indoors but spiritually inclined to wander the meadows, roads, and community beyond the house and river of her youth.Her struggle ...

• Jul-2013
• / Literary
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For Sure is among other things a labyrinth, a maze, an exploration of the folly of numbers, a repository, a defense and an illustration of the Chiac language. Written in dazzling prose -- which is occasionally interrupted by surprising bits of info...