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Fiction Literary

Appropriate Place /tpf

by (author) Lise Bissonnette

translated by Sheila Fischman

Publisher
House of Anansi Press Inc
Initial publish date
Oct 2002
Category
Literary, Contemporary Women
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887846809
    Publish Date
    Oct 2002
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

Full of the mordant wit and unflinching observations we've come to admire in Bissonette's earlier, award-winning novels and stories, An Appropriate Place is as much a commentary on the triumphs and self-deception of the political generation that refashioned Quebec as it is a dramatic story of one woman looking for her place within a disappointing world.

In this final volume of the False Pretenses trilogy, Gabrielle Perron quits her job as minister of cultural affairs in a sovereigntist government and retreats to the suburbs of Montreal, where she embarks on a journey of self-discovery and reconstruction. Gabrielle's search leads us through the corridors of power in Ottawa and Quebec City as well as through strife-torn Ethiopia, and ultimately to strange and deadly intersections with characters from Affairs of Art and Following the Summer.

About the authors

Lise Bissonnette was for many years the publisher of the highly influential Montreal newspaper Le Devoir, and the the chief executive officer of La Grande Bibliotheque du Quebec. Her novels and short fiction have been published to great acclaim in Quebec and English Canada, Following the Summer having been nominated for the Governor General's Award for translation. Lise Bissonnette lives in Montreal.

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