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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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- No
- Type
- Novel
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Personalized
- No
- Original Language
- French
- Inscribed
- No
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- Canada
- Vintage
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- ISBN
- 9781487002480
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
House of Anansi Press
ISBN-10
1487002483
ISBN-13
9781487002480
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20038402606
Product Key Features
Book Title
Twilight Celebration
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Literary
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Soifs Cycle Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
11.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
A
Reviews
PRAISE FOR THE ACACIA GARDENS: "Without a doubt Blais is the greatest living Quebec writer at present, she will certainly leave an incredible and inexhaustible legacy for scholars of her work." -- La Presse "A magnificent song of pain, full and hypnotic."-- Nightlife.ca "Life throbs on every page of this breathtaking work and stirs us, dazzles us, and lulls us." -- TVA/Salut Bonjour "Marie-Claire Blais is our Marcel Proust!" -- TVA/Salut Bonjour PRAISE FOR NOTHING FOR YOU HERE, YOUNG MAN: Winner, Grand Prix du Livre de Montral "Resilience and memory are at the heart of this 'saga' where voices intermingle . . . driven by powerful prose." -- Huffington Post "The powerful, lyrical, and unclassifiable prose of this great writer will not leave you untouched." -- La Librarie "One of the strongest books [in the series]. Every time, every book is an experience in itself."-- Montreal Gazette "A powerful novel. Dense and charged." -- Voir "Long spiralling sentences are carried by a grandiose prose." -- Chatelaine PRAISE FOR MAI AT THE PREDATORS' BALL: Winner, Governor General's Literary Award for Translation "A rare work . . . At the end of [Mai at the Predators' Ball], you feel you've been to a strange and passionate place. You feel as if the modern world has rushed in like a stiff cool breeze, refreshing yet also unsettling." -- Le Devoir "An extraordinary novel. A majestic fresco of unwavering power, showcasing the author's vision of humankind . . . lucid, potent, compassionate, and full of tenderness for all the women and men who live in this chaotic age of ours." -- Radio-Canada "Marie-Claire Blais should be classified as a national treasure . . . Another milestone in the work of a masterful writer who loves everything that is beyond the scope close to normal . . ." -- La Presse
Series Volume Number
8
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Dewey Decimal
843/.54
Synopsis
Daniel, a middle-aged novelist and loving father alienated from one of his sons and unsure how to care for his daughter, is on his way to an international conference of writers. The gathering is to be held in the forest above a mountain village of a strangely dreamlike nature. In the twilight of the festival's setting, dreams, memories, nightmares, and dark forebodings meld in Daniel's unsettled but deeply sympathetic consciousness: He is haunted by pressing existential questions: What is to be done? What are his responsibilities as a father, as a friend -- and as a writer? As Daniel confronts his own vanities, as he recalls the activism but also the disappointments and betrayals of friends and colleagues -- as he contends with, above all, the fears and aspirations of his children in times marred by apocalypse, he asks, ultimately, what can be done? In what may well be the most beautiful and disturbing of her novels, Marie-Claire Blais leads us on a heady, spellbinding journey through an interconnected world in which the artist strives to divert humankind's headlong rush towards a terrible destiny. Here is a world in which friends and strangers, the living, the dead and those not yet born, are inextricably bonded by their often flawed but always splendid humanity. Yet again, Blais captivates with her urgent concerns, irrepressible empathy, and singular idiom: A Twilight Celebration is an astonishing literary accomplishment., A middle-aged novelist is on his way to a meeting of writers held at a luxurious villa isolated from the world. Within this dreamlike atmosphere, he falls prey to nightmares in which his beloved--but often rebellious--children and other artists are threatened by the violence of the world.the world., The latest work in internationally acclaimed author Marie-Claire Blais's masterful novel cycle, A Twilight Celebration examines the prophetic side of the writer and the burden that falls to him in a world whose fate is yet to be determined. Daniel, a middle-aged novelist and loving father alienated from one of his sons and unsure how to care for his daughter, is on his way to an international conference of writers. The gathering is to be held in the forest above a mountain village of a strangely dreamlike nature. In the twilight of the festival's setting, dreams, memories, nightmares, and dark forebodings meld in Daniel's unsettled but deeply sympathetic consciousness: He is haunted by pressing existential questions: What is to be done? What are his responsibilities as a father, as a friend -- and as a writer? As Daniel confronts his own vanities, as he recalls the activism but also the disappointments and betrayals of friends and colleagues -- as he contends with, above all, the fears and aspirations of his children in times marred by apocalypse, he asks, ultimately, what can be done? In what may well be the most beautiful and disturbing of her novels, Marie-Claire Blais leads us on a heady, spellbinding journey through an interconnected world in which the artist strives to divert humankind's headlong rush towards a terrible destiny. Here is a world in which friends and strangers, the living, the dead and those not yet born, are inextricably bonded by their often flawed but always splendid humanity. Yet again, Blais captivates with her urgent concerns, irrepressible empathy, and singular idiom: A Twilight Celebration is an astonishing literary accomplishment., The eighth in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. A Twilight Celebration is a spellbinding novel brimming with urgent concerns and irrepressible empathy, true to Blais' singular idiom.
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