Laurence
- Publisher
- The Mercury Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1998
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551280608
- Publish Date
- Sep 1998
- List Price
- $18.95
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Description
From the back country of the Thetford Mines region, to a convent hospital in the city of Québec, and finally to wide-open Montréal, France Théoret has drawn an emotional portrait of a generous, plucky young woman. Laurence is a remarkable novel from a period of Québec history which has seldom been visited in fiction, particularly by the voices of women.
About the author
France Théoret holds a doctorate in French Studies from the University of Sherbrooke. After nineteen years of teaching, she quit to devote herself full-time to writing. Laurence, translated for The Mercury Press by Gail Scott, is Théoret’s eleventh book; previous titles include The Man Who Painted Stalin, Nous parlerons comme on écrit, Nécessairement putain, and Entre raison et déraison.