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Suzanne. Cover Image Book Book

Suzanne.

Summary:

Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette never knew her mother<U+2019>s mother. Curious to understand why her grandmother, Suzanne, a sometime painter and poet associated with Les Automatistes, a movement of dissident artists that included Paul-Émile Borduas, abandoned her husband and young family, Barbeau-Lavalette hired a private detective to piece together Suzanne<U+2019>s life. This is a fictionalized account of Suzanne<U+2019>s life over eighty-five years, from Montreal to New York to Brussels, from lover to lover, through an abortion, alcoholism, Buddhism, and an asylum. It takes readers through the Great Depression, Québec's Quiet Revolution, women<U+2019>s liberation, and the American civil rights movement, offering a portrait of a volatile, fascinating woman on the margins of history. And it<U+2019>s a granddaughter<U+2019>s search for a past for herself, for understanding and forgiveness.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781552453476 (softcover)
  • ISBN: 1552453472 (softcover)
  • Physical Description: 261 p. ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: 1st English ed. / Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette ; translated by Rhonda Mullins.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Coach House Books, c2017.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Translated from the French.
"Originally written by Anais Barbeau-Lavalette and published in French as La femme qui fuit by Marchand de feuilles, 2015"--Title page verso.
Subject: Grandmothers > Fiction.
Independence in women > Fiction.
Women artists > Canada > Fiction.
Montréal (Québec) > Fiction.
Genre: Biographical fiction
Historical fiction

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Vancouver Community College.

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