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The Sound of Living Things

by (author) Elise Turcotte

translated by Sheila Fischman

Publisher
Cormorant Books
Initial publish date
Jul 2004
Category
General
  • 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.

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