Life in the Court of Matane - New Edition - E-book - ePub

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Eric Dupont et Peter McCambridge - Life in the Court of Matane - New Edition.
Nadia Comaneci's gold-medal performance at the Olympic Games in Montreal is the starting point for a whole new generation. Eric Dupont watches the performance... Lire la suite
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Résumé

Nadia Comaneci's gold-medal performance at the Olympic Games in Montreal 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 onto.
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. PRAISE FOR LIFE IN THE COURT OF MATANE "This novel from Dupont .
the first from a new fiction imprint dedicated to publishing 'the very best of a new generation of Quebec storytellers in flawless English translation, ' lives up to that ambition.

Caractéristiques

  • Date de parution
    01/07/2021
  • Editeur
  • ISBN
    978-1-77186-249-3
  • EAN
    9781771862493
  • Format
    ePub
  • Nb. de pages
    280 pages
  • Caractéristiques du format ePub
    • Pages
      280
    • Taille
      676 Ko
    • Protection num.
      Digital Watermarking

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À propos des auteurs

Born in 1970, Eric Dupont lives and works in Montreal. He has published 4 novels with Marchand de feuilles and in France with Éditions du Toucan and Éditions J'ai lu (Flammarion). He is a past winner of Radio-Canada's "Combat des livres" (the equivalent of the CBC's Canada Reads contest), a finalist for the Prix littéraire France-Québec and the Prix des cinq continents, and a winner of the Prix des libraires and the Prix littéraire des collégiens.
His fourth novel, La fiancée américaine, has sold over 60, 000 copies in Quebec alone. Originally from Ireland, Peter McCambridge holds a BA in modern languages from Cambridge University, England, and has lived in Quebec City since 2003. He runs Québec Reads and now QC Fiction. His translation of Eric Dupont's La Fiancée américaine, Songs for the Cold of Heart, was shortlisted for both the 2018 Giller Prize and the 2018 Governor General's Award for Translation.
It will be published worldwide, outside of Canada, by HarperCollins in 2020.

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