 |


|
 |
Item Details
Title:
|
THE FAT WOMAN NEXT DOOR IS PREGNANT
|
By: |
Michel Tremblay, Sheila Fischman (Trans) |
Format: |
Paperback |

List price:
|
£14.99 |
Our price: |
£12.37 |
Discount: |
|
You save:
|
£2.62 |
|
|
|
|
ISBN 10: |
0889221901 |
ISBN 13: |
9780889221901 |
Availability: |
Reprinting. This item may be subject to delays or cancellation.
Delivery
rates
|
Stock: |
Currently 0 available |
Publisher: |
TALON BOOKS,CANADA |
Pub. date: |
1 January, 1981 |
Pages: |
256 |
Description: |
Seven women in a Francophone working-class Montreal neighborhood are pregnant, but only "the fat woman" bears a child of love. |
Synopsis: |
It is the glorious second day of May, 1942. The sun is drawing the damp from earth still heavy with the end of a long Quebec winter, the budding branches of the trees along rue Fabre and in Parc Lafontaine of the Plateau Mont Royal ache to release their leaves into the warm, clear air heralding the approach of summer.Seven women in this raucous Francophone working-class Montreal neighbourhood are pregnant? only one of them, ? the fat woman," is bearing a child of true love and affection. Next door to the home that is by times refuge, asylum, circus-arena, confessional and battleground to her extended family, with ancient roots in both rural Quebec and the primordial land of the Saskatchewan Cree, stands an immaculately kept but seemingly empty house where the fates, Rose, Mauve, Violet and their mother Florence, only ever fleetingly and uncertainly glimpsed by those in a state of emotional extremis, are knitting the booties of what will become the children of a whole new nation.In this first of six novels that became his Chronicles of the Plateau Mont Royal, Tremblay allows his imagination free reign, fictionalizing the lives of his beloved characters, dramatized so brilliantly in his plays and remembered so poignantly in his memoirs.? The fat woman" both is and is not Michel Tremblay's mother? her extended family and neighbours more than a symbol of a colonized people: abandoned and mocked by France; conquered and exploited by England; abused and terrorized by the Church; and forced into a war by Canada supporting the very powers that have crushed their spirit and twisted their souls since time immemorial. This is a ? divine comedy" of the extraordinary triumphs and tragedies of ordinary people caught up by circumstances that span the range of the ridiculous to the sublime. |
Publication: |
Canada |
Imprint: |
Talon Books,Canada |
Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |


|

|

|

|

|
Little Worried Caterpillar (PB)
Little Green knows she''s about to make a big change - transformingfrom a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. Everyone is VERYexcited! But Little Green is VERY worried. What if being a butterflyisn''t as brilliant as everyone says?Join Little Green as she finds her own path ... with just a littlehelp from her friends.

|

|
All the Things We Carry PB
What can you carry?A pebble? A teddy? A bright red balloon? A painting you''ve made?A hope or a dream?This gorgeous, reassuring picture book celebrates all the preciousthings we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope. With comforting rhymes and fabulous illustrations, this is a warmhug of a picture book.

|

|
|
 |