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2016., QC Fiction Call No: Fic Dup Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Nadia Comaneci's gold-medal performance at the Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976 is the starting point for a whole new generation. Eric Dupont watches the performance on TV, mesmerized. The son of a police officer (Henry VIII) and a professional cook--as he likes to remind us--he grows up in the depths of the Quebec countryside with a new address for almost every birthday and little but memories of his mother to hang on to. His parents have divorced, and the novel's narrator relates his childhood, comparing it to a family gymnastics performance worthy of Nadia herself. Life in the Court of Matane is unforgiving and we explore different facets of it (dreams of sovereignty, schoolyard bullying, imagined missions to Russia, poems by Baudelaire), each based around an encounter with a different animal, until the narrator befriends a great horned owl, summons up the courage to let go of the upper bar forever, and makes his glorious escape."--
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2022., Adult, Baraka Books Call No: QWF Fic Dup Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Rosa Ost grows up in Notre-Dame-du-Cachalot, a tiny village at the end of the world, where two industries are king: paper and Boredom. The fate that befalls Rosa is the focus of this tale of long journeys and longer lives, of impossible deaths, unwavering prophecies, and unsettling dreams as she leaves her village for Montreal on a quest to summon the westerly wind that has proved so vital to the local economy.
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2012., Cormorant Books Call No: QWF Fic Dup Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Eric, a three-year-old from Gaspesie, is a being who lives only for pleasure. Drinking from his bottle, he tastes sugar for the first time, and is immediately hooked. From that point on, Eric and his sister go to greater and more desperate lengths to satisfy their sweet tooth, all the while contending with the annoyances of the police, medical authorities, and boiled vegetables. Sugar Thieves is a fun, intelligent fable of greed and hedonism, as well as a tribute to glucose and its wonderful derivatives.
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2004., Marchand de feuilles Call No: QWF FR Fic Dup Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: able gourmande et hédoniste, Voleurs de sucre est un éloge du glucose et de ses dérivés. Eric, un gaspésien de 3 ans raconte l'évolution de sa dépendance au sucre et la collusion éternelle des êtres qui ne vivent que pour le plaisir. Baigné dans la douce lumière de l'enfance, le narrateur raconte comment il arrive à se procurer son doux poison. Le récit se veut un pied-de-nez aux forces policières, aux autorités médicales, aux légumes bouillis et autres contrariétés.
