The Sound of Living Things
- Publisher
- Cormorant Books
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2004
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781896951713
- Publish Date
- Jul 2004
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
Albanie is thirty years old. Her daughter Maria is four. The two are on their own. They are given the rare freedom to pursue a life of the imagination, by virtue of Albanie's job. She works at the local library. Out of the passing of days, the flow of words, the aspects of life they explore together, a love story unlike any other is woven between Albanie and Maria — one that enables them to feel and hear the sound of living things.
About the authors
Élise Turcotte is a novelist and award-winning poet who has received the Prix Emile Nelligan for La terre est ici in 1989 and for La voix de Carla in 1987. In 1992, she won the Prix Louis-Hémon for Le bruit des choses vivantes. Her novel The Alien House was shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation. Élise lives in Montreal, where she has taught at the CEGEP de Vieux-Montréal since 1986.
