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A Season in the Life of Emmanuel

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Marie-Claire Blais is the author of more than 20 novels, 5 plays, and collections of poetry and short stories. She is the recipient of the Prix France-Canada and the prestigious Prix Médicis and was the first North American writer invited to join Belgium's prestigious Academy of French Language and Literature. She lives in Key West, Florida. Mary Meigs is an American painter who emigrated to Canada and is best known for her literary contributions. Derek Coltman has worked as a translator for more than five decades and has translated many of the most recognized contemporary French authors. Priscila Uppal is a poet, a fiction writer, and a professor of humanities and English at York University. Her work has been translated into Croatian, Dutch, Greek, Italian, Korean, and Latvian. She lives in Toronto, Ontario. Klappentext In her third and most powerful novel, Marie-Claire Blais explores, with sober compassion and realistic detail, a season in the life of Emmanuel, the sixteenth child of a poverty-stricken farmer's family in rural Quebec. First published in 1965, "A Season in the Life of Emmanuel established Blais's international reputation when it won the Prix France-Quebec and the Prix Medicis of France. The novel has been translated into 13 languages.

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Authors Marie-Claire Blais, Derek Coltman
Assisted by Mary Meigs (Illustration), Derek Coltman (Translation)
Publisher External catalogues_US
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.04.2009
 
EAN 9781550961188
ISBN 978-1-55096-118-8
No. of pages 164
Series Exile Classics
Exile Classics Series
Exile Classics
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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