TITLE:
Augustino and the choir of destruction.
Translated Title:
Augustino et le choeur de la destruction
Publication Date:
2007
Contents:
These festive nights -- Thunder and light -- Augustino and the choir of destruction.
Summary:
With her unique, signature use of punctuation, Marie-Claire Blais manages to brilliantly show in one flashing stroke men and women; victims and tormentors; child kamikaze pilots and petty thieves from Bahama Street; Charles, a great poet cut down by AIDS; Cinderella, a transvestite prostituting himself to a customer at the Porte du Baiser saloon; Caroline, an artist and photographer who has seen all the hidden treasures of the world; and Augustino, a clairvoyant child-writer. These individual destinies combine in Blais' vision to form a single harmonic texture.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780887847523
General Note:
Translation of: Augustino et le choeur de la destruction.
