Marie-Claire Blais

• Jun-1970
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Pauline tells her personal story of growing up through paradoxes and insights that blend social, religious, and moral textures. Her world is populated by people who turn to violence or sink into quiet despair -- it is a world damned. Pauline, her f...

• Sep-1974
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• Jan-1976
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• Aug-1985
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• Nov-1989
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• Feb-1993
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The Angel of Solitude presides over the lives of eight young lesbian women who strive to achieve an all-female utopia within which homophobia, their pasts and their differences are abolished. As the narrative unfolds, we realize that none of the wome...

• Sep-1997
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The first volume in the beloved novelist Marie-Claire Blais’ prize-winning novel cycle -- acclaimed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction -- reissued in a handsome A List edition, featuring an introduction by Lisa Moore.O...

• Sep-1998
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Known internationally as an award-winning QuŽbecois novelist, Marie-Claire Blais has remained hidden as a dramatist from Anglophone readers. Nigel Spencer's first-ever translation recreates Blais' disturbing yet lyrical dramas, evoking a world of...

• Nov-2000
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This collection of nine short stories and a novella offers a fine introduction to the short fiction of Marie-Claire Blais. The stories range widely in setting and form, and take us from depictions of the dark period of the "Grande Noirceur" of pre...

• Apr-2001
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The second volume in the beloved novelist Marie-Claire Blais’s prize-winning novel cycle -- acclaimed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction -- reissued in a handsome A List edition.Originally published in 2001, Thunder an...

• Mar-2007
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In Augustino and the Choir of Destrucion literary legend and three-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award Marie-Claire Blais delivers the third volume in the prize-winning series (These Festive Nights, Thunder and Light, Augustino and t...

• Apr-2007
• / Romance
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Through Genevieve -- a woman struggling with an idealistic vision of love -- a door is opened into the lives of the characters through which Marie-Claire Blais came to the forefront of feminism in Canada. Night after night in a club called The Underg...

• Aug-2008
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A harrowing pathology of the soul, Mad Shadows centres on a family group: Patrice, the beautiful and narcissistic son; his ugly and malicious sister, Isabelle-Marie; and Louise, their vain and uncomprehending mother. These characters inhabit an amora...

• Sep-2008
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A human wolf who operates outside the bounds of conventional morality stalks human prey in this spell-binding morose masterpiece of psychic cannibalism, hatred, perversity, and predatory love. This unconventional and provocative story explores the wo...

• Apr-2009
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Following the life of newborn infant, Emmanuel, this great contemporary novel of Quebec exposes a painful history central to the new consciousness that emerged in the 1960s known as “the quiet revolution.” The story of Emmanuel and his 15 brother...

• Mar-2010
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With this astounding fourth novel in her ongoing series of contemporary masterpieces (These Festive Nights, Thunder and Light, Augustino and the Choir of Destruction, and Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom), Marie-Claire Blais invites us again to enter a...

• Apr-2010
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Exploring contemporary life and the penetrating energy of youth, this novel follows Anna, an introspective, alienated teenager without hope. Anna and her friend Michelle have experienced what life today has to offer -- they have experimented with dru...

• Feb-2012
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Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award: Translation. Shortlisted for the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation.In Mai at the Predators' Ball, Marie-Claire Blais, literary legend and four-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award f...

• Jun-2014
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In the latest installment in her award-winning series, Marie-Claire Blais reintroduces us to Petites Cendres, familiar from other books in the cycle, and lets us into the lives of two other unforgettable characters. She shows us, once again, how crea...

• Jul-2016
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What anxiety grips Petites Cendres as he runs towards the sea in the sunshine on a warm tropical morning? Shouldn’t he be reassured by the thought that he now lives at the Acacia Gardens, a comfortable home where all find care, understanding, and h...

• Aug-2018
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Originally published in 1995 under the title Soifs, the first novel in Marie-Claire Blais’ masterful series won the Governor General’s Award for French Fiction and was hailed by critics around the world as a tour de force, comparing Blais to s...

• Aug-2019
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The latest work in internationally acclaimed author Marie-Claire Blais’s masterful novel cycle, A Twilight Celebration examines the prophetic side of the writer and the burden that falls to him in a world whose fate is yet to be determined.Daniel, ...

• Jul-2021
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The ninth novel in internationally acclaimed author Marie-Claire Blais’s extraordinary Soifs cycle, Songs for Angel is an impassioned interrogation of violence and hate that takes us into the soul of a white supremacist on the verge of a racist att...

• Oct-2023
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René suddenly feels like an old man. Recovering at home after an illness, his mind will not leave the past. He is both comforted and annoyed by the officious care provided by his Russian nurse, who keeps referring to him as a woman. It is a life...