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2007., Seuil Call No: QWF FR Fic Arc Edition: 1re publication. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sur le toit dœun immeuble de Montréal, une femme au teint de rousse se fait bronzer. Immobile sous les rayons, Julie OœBrien ne supporte pas la morsure du soleil : mais elle considère le traitement quœelle sœinflige comme obligatoire.La beauté, chez Nelly Arcan, est en rapport avec la maltraitance. La beauté est une guerre. Et la guerre surgit lorsque Rose Dubois la rejoint sur ce toit brûlant. Rose est en couple avec Charles Nadeau, un photographe de mode. Les deux femmes se lient, mais ne peuvent sœempêcher de projeter dans leur relation lœombre de leurs peurs. Chacune peut repérer les traces de la chirurgie sur les lèvres ou les seins de lœautre. Un lien au scalpel. Et pendant que Charles manipule des photos sur son ordinateur, Julie et Rose se demandent laquelle est en trop, qui devra mourir.Dans un monde de harcèlement publicitaire où le corps des femmes est sans cesse déshabillé et exposé, brandi comme une marche à suivre et refondu par la chirurgie esthétique, lœamour semble glisser des doigts.Cœest une histoire dœaujourdœhui, cruelle. Cœest aussi une prouesse littéraire sans pareille. Un pur condensé de désenchantement et de colère.
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2007., Hurtubise HMH Call No: FR Fic Dav Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Amours interdites Volume: tome IIISummary Note: Le printemps 1967 s'annonce et avec lui souffle un vent nouveau qui fera virevolter le destin de plusieurs des habitants de Saint-Jacques-de-la-Rive. L'heure est au bouleversement des mœurs et des valeurs. Ce que l'on nommera plus tard la Révolution tranquille s'est bel et bien installée, malgré les répliques acerbes du curé Savard, à qui Étienne Fournier et les autres membres de la fabrique répondront sur le même ton. Le maire, Côme Crevier, ne sera pas en reste, incarnant dorénavant l'autorité dans son village. Alors que tous les regards sont fixés sur Montréal et son exposition universelle, les jeunes adultes des familles Veilleux, Fournier, Hamel et Tremblay sont appelés à faire des choix. Bataille de coq, déception amoureuse, emplois prometteurs, grossesse honteuse, promesse de mariage, émancipation, perte d'enfant, tous sont emportés par le tourbillon de la vie. Nostalgiques devant tous ces changements, la génération de leurs parents se réfugie dans les souvenirs. Étrangement, la relation chaotique qu'entretiennent Bertrand Tremblay et d'André Veilleux leur rappelle celle, aussi houleuse, de leurs grands-pères Eugène et Ernest.
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2016., Adult, House of Anansi Call No: Fic Bla Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "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 healing? How can Fleur, the young musical prodigy, listen to the diabolical confessions of Wrath, the fugitive priest, without shuddering? And, can Daniel the writer finish his novel, the one he has been working on for twenty years, despite his sensitivity and empathy for all creatures, even if they are the most humble, like the lizard he inadvertently crushed under his sandal? With this latest novel, Marie-Claire Blais once again gives us a vibrant portrait that embraces the span of life--from birth to death and beyond. Her characters question their purpose and what will come after, as they are confronted by evil that lives and that has taken root."--From publisher.
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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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c2010., Adult, Vintage Canada Call No: QWF Fic Dic Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A sweek, smart and occasionally sureal romantic comedy, featuring two young friends who could become lovers - if only one on them hadn't convinced herself that the end of the world is nigh."--Inside front cover.
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c2010., Adult, McArthur Call No: QWF Fic Bis Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In the collection of stories, Nadine Bismuth treats us to a series of sharp, witty, but compassionate portraits of modern urban women torn between a desire for male companionship and the trials and tribulations of navigating couplehood in the real world..."--Back cover.
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c2007., XYZ éditeur Call No: QWF FR Fic Moo Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From a winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize comes a novel about a man, whose memory is unrelentingly exact, and his mother, who is slowly sinking into the quicksand of Alzheimer's and his heartbreaking, often hilarious quest to find a cure for her.
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2015., Adult, Biblioasis Call No: QWF Fic Arc Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "With its stories of innocent young girls and wild beasts, attempted murder and ritual mutilation, haunted houses and road trips to nowhere, Samuel Archibald?s Arvida, the portrait of a remote mining town in French Canada, reads like a Proust-obsessed Cormac McCarthy. A 25,000-copy Bestseller in French, it does for northern Quebec what Faulkner did for the south."--Publisher.
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[2011-], Septentrion Call No: QWF FR Fic Fou Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: 1. L'enfer ne brûle pas.Summary Note: Premier tome d'une série. Martin Fournier nous livre un récit trépidant et palpitant mettant en vedette Radisson qui a tout d'un véritable héros. Un des personnages les plus intéressants de la Nouvelle-France. Plus grand que nature. Au printemps 1651, un jeune homme originaire de Paris nommé Pierre-Esprit Radisson débarque à Trois-Rivières. Son intention est de se livrer à la traite des fourrures mais, à peine arrivé, sa vie bascule lorsque les Iroquois le capturent. Radisson connaît alors une suite d'aventures qui vont le conduire dans des pays inconnus, très loin de la Nouvelle-France, en compagnie des Iroquois qui, après l'avoir torturé, l'adoptent comme un frère.Radisson vivra comme un Iroquois pendant deux ans, tour à tour prisonnier et ravisseur, chasseur et guerrier, fils et amant. Après plusieurs mois d'efforts pour se faire aimer et admirer, son intégration à la culture iroquoise se passe très bien. Mais il redécouvre ses racines européennes lors d'une expédition de traite de fourrures chez les Hollandais voisins. Après avoir hésité quelque temps entre son identité iroquoise et française, il court le risque de s'évader une seconde fois pour retrouver les siens et reprendre sa vie là où il l'avait laissée en arrivant en Amérique.Ce premier volet des aventures de Radisson, le plus célèbre coureur de bois de l'histoire du Canada, plonge le lecteur au cœur de l'époque héroïque où les pionniers français côtoyaient chaque jour les autochtones, alliée ou ennemis, qui ont façonné notre culture.Ce roman est basé sur les récits de Radisson.
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2016., Adult, Second Story Press Call No: Fic And Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Born in Germany, Marguerite was just into her twenties when she moved to Tunisia with her French lover. She thought she was choosing a life of adventure and freedom, but what she got was children and a marriage that quickly became abusive. Constrained by the minutiae of everyday life, Marguerite longs for the agency to make her own choices. Eventually she flees, leaving her children behind for a year and a half. As the world labels her a wife, a mother, and eventually a bad mother, Marguerite wrestles with her own definition of personhood. Can you love your children and want your own life at the same time?"--From publisher.
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c2014., Adult, Viking/Penguin Books Canada Inc. Call No: Fic Hus Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Screenwriter Milo Noirlac is dying. He lies in the dark of his hospital room, voices from Milo's past and present - real and imagined - swirl about his head, each taking on the rhythm of his favourite Brazilian fight-dance, the capoiera. Seated next to him, Milo's partner, bumptious director Paul Schwartz, coaxes Milo through his life story, from the abuse he suffered as a foster child to his lost heritage - his great-grandfather's ostentatious wealth. As Milo narrates, his story becomes the couple's final screenplay, the movie that will be their masterpiece.
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c2010., Adult, House of Anansi Press Call No: QWF Fic Qui Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This is the story of a woman without a name. It is also the story of Lucie and Claire and Aurore and Suzanne - and the complex love between mothers, daughters, and friends. With this thrilling puzzle of a novel, Governor General's Literary Award winner and Giller Prize nominee Pascale Quiviger, author of THE PERFECT CIRCLE, shows that she is a writer who is capable of combining stylistic brilliance, philosophical depth, and sheer riveting storytelling.
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c2011., Adult, Penguin Group Call No: Fic Des Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Laure Beausejour has grown up in a dormitory in Paris surrounded by prostitutes, the insane, and other forgotten women. She dreams with her best friend, Madeleine, of using her needlework skills to become a seamstress and one day marry a nobleman. But in 1669, Laure is sent across the Atlantic to New France with Madeleine as filles du roi. The girls know little of the place they are being sent to, except for stories of ferocious winters and Indians who eat the hearts of French priests. To be banished to Canada is a punishment worse than death. Bride of New France explores the challenges Laure faces coming into womanhood in a brutal time and place. From the moment she arrives in Ville-Marie (Montreal) she is expected to marry and produce children with a brutish French soldier who himself can barely survive the harsh conditions of his forest cabin. But through her clandestine relationship with Deskaheh, an allied Iroquois, Laure finds a sense of the possibilities in this New World."--Publisher.
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1996., Véhicule Press Call No: Fic Aub Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Canadians of Old-one of the cornerstones of Canadian literature-appeared in 1863, in the midst of the American Civil War and on the brink of Canadian Confederation. It offered the first genuine fictional exploration of the pivotal event in the emerging nation's past and was enthusiastically received by Canadian readers, both French and English. The author was one of the last Canadian seigneurs and a descendent of some of New France's most distinguished families. His novel is the bittersweet tale of a family caught in the web of war-a story of friendship, love, and conflicting loyalties. He draws on personal and family memories to paint a picture of mid-eighteenth-century Quebec before and after the Seven Years' War: rollicking schooldays in Quebec, rural and family life on the seigneurie, Indian encounters, the great battle, and the trials of reconstruction in a shattered society. The first English translation of de Gaspé's novel appeared in 1864. This version was marred by a wordy and convoluted prose style and has long been out of print. The second, by Charles G. D. Roberts in 1890, provided a readable but somewhat cavalier version that omitted numerous details and left untranslated de Gaspé's delightful and evocative "Notes and Clarifications." With this new translation by an award-winning translator, English-language readers will at last be able to appreciate de Gaspé's book in its entirety.
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2008., Adult, Alto Call No: QWF FR Fic Edd Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Une histoire d'amour (entre Douglas et Éléna), d'absence, de passion pour les plantes qui guérissent, pour les arbres, etc. L'histoire "d'une étrange famille [qui déroge] outrageusement aux convenances" p. 127. La fille de Douglas, le père absent, et d'Éléna, la mère décédée, lit avec ferveur les lettres de Douglas et espère son retour. Un regard bienveillant sur les êtres et les choses" par une écrivaine - d'origine française, vivant au Québec - "à la prose sage et poétique, à l'imaginaire subtil et délicat" (S. Giguère). [SDM]
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2016., Les Editions du Boréal Call No: QWF FR Fic Ric Edition: French Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Jake Hersh a-t-il tout raté ? À trente-sept ans, le réalisateur montréalais n’a pourtant pas grand-chose à se reprocher. Issu d’un milieu modeste, il jouit d’une petite réputation dans le milieu du cinéma et coule des jours heureux à Londres, aux côtés de sa belle shiksa, Nancy, et de leurs trois enfants. Mais lorsqu’une jeune Allemande l’accuse faussement d’agression sexuelle, c’est de sa propre vie que Jake se met à faire le procès. Pour échapper aux regrets qui l’accablent et à la poursuite qui menace sa famille et sa carrière, il se prendra à fantasmer la vie de son cousin Joey. Cet ancien voyou des ruelles de Montréal deviendra, dans l’imagination féconde de Jake, le Cavalier de Saint-Urbain, héros de la guerre civile espagnole et pourfendeur de nazis, qui n’hésite pas à traquer l’infâme Dr Mengele jusqu’aux confins de la jungle sud-américaine. Prix du Gouverneur général en 1972, Le Cavalier de Saint-Urbain est l’un des plus grands succès de Mordecai Richler. Avec la férocité et l’impertinence qu’on lui connaît, le romancier plonge ici dans l’effervescence des années soixante et dresse le portrait d’une génération écrasée par le sentiment d’être passée à côté des grands bouleversements de son époque.
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1965., Éditions HMH Call No: FR Fic The Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Collection L'Arbre Volume: v.5