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2021., Adult, Coach House Books Call No: Fic Sau Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Jocelyne Saucier is back with her unique outlook on self-determination in this unsettling story about a woman's disappearance on a Northerlander train. Our mysterious narrator, who is documenting people disappearing on northern trains, is eager to uncover the truth of the woman's voyage, tracking down fellow passengers and train employees for years to learn what happened to her and why. Translated by Rhonda Mullins. Saucier lives in Abitibi, QC. From the author of 'And the Birds Rained Down' (9781552452684). .
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2012., General, Coach House Books Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Tom and Charlie have decided to live out the remainder of their lives on their own terms, hidden away in a remote forest, their only connection to the outside world a couple of pot growers who deliver whatever they can't eke out for themselves. But one summer two women arrive. One is a young photographer documenting a a series of catastrophic forest fires that swept Northern Ontario early in the century; she's on the trail of the recently deceased Ted Boychuck, a survivor of the blaze. And then the elderly aunt of the one of the pot growers appears, fleeing one of the psychiatric institutions that have been her home since she was sixteen. She joins the men in the woods and begins a new life as Marie-Desneige. With the photographer's help, they find Ted's series of paintings about the fire, and begin to decipher the dead man's history. A haunting meditation on aging and self-determination, 'And the Birds Rained Down', was the winner of the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie, the first Canadian title to win this honour. It was winner of the Prix des lecteurs Radio-Canada, the Prix des collégiens du Québec, the Prix Ringuet 2012 and a finalist for the Grand Prix de la ville de Montréal.
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2012., General, Coach House Books Call No: QWF Fic Sau Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Tom and Charlie have decided to live out the remainder of their lives on their own terms, hidden away in a remote forest, their only connection to the outside world a couple of pot growers who deliver whatever they can't eke out for themselves. But one summer two women arrive. One is a young photographer documenting a a series of catastrophic forest fires that swept Northern Ontario early in the century; she's on the trail of the recently deceased Ted Boychuck, a survivor of the blaze. And then the elderly aunt of the one of the pot growers appears, fleeing one of the psychiatric institutions that have been her home since she was sixteen. She joins the men in the woods and begins a new life as Marie-Desneige. With the photographer's help, they find Ted's series of paintings about the fire, and begin to decipher the dead man's history. A haunting meditation on aging and self-determination, 'And the Birds Rained Down', was the winner of the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie, the first Canadian title to win this honour. It was winner of the Prix des lecteurs Radio-Canada, the Prix des collégiens du Québec, the Prix Ringuet 2012 and a finalist for the Grand Prix de la ville de Montréal.
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2006, c1999., General, XYZ Call No: QWF FR Fic Sau Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Tous responsables" (p. 183)? Second roman de l'auteure abitibienne. Les 21 enfants d'un couple se rassemblent à l'occasion d'un hommage rendu à leur père octogénaire, un prospecteur à l'origine des beaux jours d'une ville devenue quasi-fantôme. Il va bien falloir parler de ce drame qui a à jamais marqué leur enfance. Tout est en place pour un "huis clos infernal" (p. 167) en marge du congrès de prospecteurs. [SDM]
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2011., Adult, XYZ Call No: QWF FR 848 S255i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Romanichels.Summary Note: "Vers quelle forêt secrte se dirige la photographe partie à la recherche d'un certain Boychuck, témoin et brûlé des Grands Feux qui ont ravagé le nord de l'Ontario au début du XXe siècle? On ne le saura pas. Boychuck, Tom et Charlie, dorénavant vieux, ont choisi de se retirer du monde. Ils vivent relativement heureux et ont même préparé leur mort. De fait, Boychuck n'est plus de ce monde au moment où s'amène la photographe. Tom et Charlie ignorent que la venue de la photographe boulversera leur vie. Les deux survivants feront la rencontre d'un personnage aérien, Marie-Desneige. Elle a 82 ans, tous ses esprits, même si elle est internée depuis soixante-six ans. Elle arrivera sur les lieux comme une brise espérée alors que la photographe découvrira que Boychuck était un peintre et que son ouvre était tout entière marquée par le Grand Feu de Matheson. C'est dans ce décor que s'élabore Il pleuvait des oiseaux. Nous voici en plein cour d'un drame historique, mais aussi pris par l'histoire d'hommes qui ont choisi la forêt. Trois êtres épris de liberté et qui ont fait un pacte avec la mort. Un superbe récit à la mesure du grand talent de Jocelyne Saucier."--Couverture.
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c2006., Adult, XYZ éditeur Call No: QWF FR Fic Sau Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Romanichels.
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2015., Coach House Press Call No: QWF Fic Sau Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Weœre nothing like other families. We are self-made. We are an essence unto ourselves, unique and dissonant, the only members of our species. Livers of humdrum lives who flitted around us got their wings burned. Weœre not mean, but we can bare our teeth. People didnœt hang around when a band of Cardinals made its presence known.With twenty-one kids, the Cardinal family is a force of nature. And now, after not being in the same room for decades, theyœre congregating to celebrate their father, a prospector who discovered the zinc mine their now-deserted hometown in northern Quebec was built around. But as the siblings tell the tales of their feral childhood, we discover that Angèle, the only Cardinal with a penchant for happiness, has gone missing although everyone has pretended not to notice for years. Why the silence? What secrets does the mine hold?.
