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2019., Adult, Book*hug Press Call No: QWF Fic Gen Edition: First English Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Literature in translation series.Summary Note: At the book fair in Rimouski, a woman picked up my first book to read the back cover. She put it back down, avoiding my eyes. It's heavy, cancer and death and all that. I wish books were more interactive. Like video game controllers. They could vibrate at the end of each chapter. But that's not how life works. I wonder what death is like. Do you vibrate? Do the words GAME OVER appear? In 2012, Vickie Gendreau was diagnosed with a brain tumour and wrote a book narrating her own death. Testament could have been Gendreau's first and only novel, but she kept writing, furiously, until the very end. Published posthumously after Gendreau's death in 2013 at age 24, Drama Queens continues her exploration of illness and death that began in Testament, but with even greater urgency and audacity. In her singular voice, Gendreau mixes genres and forms, moving from art installations to fantastical little films to poetry, returning again and again to a deeply raw and unflinching narrative of her increasingly difficult days. With rage, dark humour, and boundless spirit and imagination, Drama Queens, translated by Aimee Wall, records the daily life of a young woman living with a failing body, the end in sight, and still so much to say. .
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2014., Le Quartnier Call No: QWF FR Fic Gen Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Série QRSummary Note: Quand je joue à Super Mario, je ne trouve jamais mon bonhomme. La manette de la Wii est bien faite. Elle vibre quand tu meurs. Elle vibre sans arrêt. Je crois que je fais exprès inconsciemment. Pour m'habituer à ma mort, peut-être. Je dis tout le temps que je vais écrire dix livres et que je vais vivre dix ans encore. Que celui-là va s'appeler Cinéma expérimental. Drama Queens, c'est comme son nom de danseuse. Je tape à une main, avec un oeil fermé. À tout moment, je pourrais partir en convulsions. Partir comme dans ne plus jamais revenir. Chaque phrase est un combat. Au Salon du livre de Rimouski, une dame a pris mon premier livre pour en lire la quatrième de couverture. Elle l'a reposé en évitant mon regard. C'est lourd, le cancer, la mort pis ces affaires-là. J'aimerais que ça soit plus interactif comme objet, le livre. Comme la manette. Que ça vibre à chaque fin de chapitre. Mais ce n'est pas comme ça que ça marche, la vie. Comment est-ce que ça se passe, mourir ? Est-ce qu'on vibre et qu'il est écrit GAME OVER?
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2016., Adult, BookThug Call No: QWF Fic Gen Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Literature in translation seriesSummary Note: "On June 6, 2012, Vickie Gendreau was diagnosed with a brain tumour. In between treatments, between hospital stays and her "room of her own," she wrote Testament, an autofictional novel in which she imagines her death and at the same time, bequeaths to her friends and family both the fragmented story of her last year and the stories of the loved ones who keep her memory alive, in language as raw and flamboyant as she was."--Publisher's description.
