Biography & Autobiography General
Defiance in Their Eyes
True Stories from the Margins
- Publisher
- Vehicule Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1998
- Category
- General, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550650686
- Publish Date
- Jan 1998
- List Price
- $15.95
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Description
These six stories are about real people?Pierre Vallières, Paul Rose, the Mohawks, Paolo Violi, Claude Jutra, and Jean Castonguay.
Each in turn exhibits an acute discomfort with the world as it is, a fierce resistance against the passivity and apathy that drags at life's coat-tails, and an inclination?nourished by personal belief?to act in ways that threaten the orderly peaceable flow of what passes for normal life.
For different reasons, these individuals who have reached that point of crisis where lives are lived in extremis: a time when perspectives narrow and existence is imperiled by shifting equations of power. Trapped between rage and despair, violence inevitably becomes the only possible resolution.
About the author
ANN CHARNEY was born in Poland and raised in Montreal. She is a novelist, essayist, and journalist, who has an MA in French literature from McGill University and a license ès lettres from the Sorbonne in Paris. She has won two National Magazine Awards, the Chatelaine Fiction Prize, and the Canadian Authors' Association Prize, and was recently named an officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters. Her first novel, Distantly Related to Freud, was pu