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AMERICAN NOTEBOOKS
A WRITER'S JOURNEY |
| By: |
Marie-Claire Blais, Linda Gaboriau (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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£11.99 |
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£9.89 |
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£2.10 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0889223580 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780889223585 |
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| Publisher: |
TALON BOOKS,CANADA |
| Pub. date: |
15 September, 1996 |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
Portraits of the writers, musicians, artists and social activists who influenced the life and work of Blais in the 1960s. |
| Synopsis: |
It is the spring of 1963. The young Quebec author Marie-Claire Blais, bursting with energy and talent, has just won a coveted Guggenheim fellowship. She chooses Cambridge, Massachusetts, as the place where she will begin her writer's apprenticeship with her mentor, Edmund Wilson.American Notebooks is much more than a fascinating autobiographical account of the intellectual flowering of a great writer. An album of exquisitely drawn literary portraits of companions, intellectuals, writers, musicians, artists and social activists of the period? Edmund and Elena Wilson; Mary Meigs; Maud Maugan; Barbara Deming; Truman Capote; Jacques Hebert, her first Quebec publisher, then senator; and many others? it also introduces many of the real life personalities who have inspired her fictional characters. |
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Canada |
| Imprint: |
Talon Books,Canada |
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