A Twilight Celebration

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.

Info autore

MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS (1939-2021) was the internationally revered author of more than twenty-five books, many of which have been published around the world. In addition to the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, which she won four times, Blais was awarded the Gilles-Corbeil Prize, the Médicis Prize, the Molson Prize, and several Guggenheim Fellowships. Marie-Claire Blais divided her time between Florida and Quebec.

Riassunto

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.

Prefazione

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Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: BLAIS, Marie-Claire Blais, Blais Marie-Claire
• Con la collaborazione di: Nigel Spencer (Traduzione), Spencer Nigel (Traduzione)
• Editore: Ingram Publishers Services
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 06.08.2019
• EAN: 9781487002480
• ISBN: 978-1-4870-0248-0
• Dimensioni: 133 mm x 203 mm x 17 mm
• Peso: 322 g
• Illustrazioni: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction: general and literary