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Wolf

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais

translated by Sheil Fischman

introduction by Edmund White

Publisher
Exile Editions
Initial publish date
Jul 2008
Category
General, Gay
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550961058
    Publish Date
    Jul 2008
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

A human wolf who operates outside the bounds of conventional morality stalks human prey in this spell-binding morose masterpiece of psychic cannibalism, hatred, perversity, and predatory love. This unconventional and provocative story explores the world of male homosexuality.

About the authors

Born in 1939 in Québec, Marie-Claire Blais continues to dominate the literary landscape. Having published her first novel at the age of twenty, she has gone on to publish twenty novels to date in France and Quebec—all of which have been translated into English—as well as five plays and several collections of poetry. All of her writings have met with international acclaim.Talon has published her American Notebooks, a fascinating autobiographical account of the intellectual flowering of a great writer.Winner of the Prix Médicis, the Prix Belgo-Canadien, the Prix France-Québec, and many others, Blais continues to devote herself to work that is proud and exacting. Most recently, she has been invited, as one of the very few foreigners allowed, to join Belgium’s Academy of French Language and Literature.

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