Sugar Thieves
- Publisher
- Cormorant Books
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2012
- Category
- Literary, Satire, Small Town & Rural, Humorous
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897151815
- Publish Date
- Aug 2012
- List Price
- $21.00
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Description
Eric, a three-year-old from Gaspésie, is a being who lives only for pleasure. Drinking from his bottle, he tastes sugar for the first time, and is immediately hooked. From that point on, Eric and his sister go to greater and more desperate lengths to satisfy their sweet tooth, all the while contending with the annoyances of the police, medical authorities, and boiled vegetables. Sugar Thieves is a fun, intelligent fable of greed and hedonism, as well as a tribute to glucose and its wonderful derivatives.
About the authors
ERIC DUPONT was born in Gaspésie in 1970. He is a teacher and translator in Montréal. Sugar Thieves (Voleurs de sucre) is his first novel. His second novel La Loguese won the French language CBC's Canada Reads (Le Combats des livres) in 2008.
