Carla Carlson is at the Hotel Clarendon in Quebec City trying to finish a novel. Nearby, a woman, preoccupied with sadness and infatuated with her boss, catalogues antiquities at the Museum of Civilization. Every night, the two women meet at the hotel bar and talk
about childhood and parents and landscapes, about time and art, about Descartes and Francis Bacon and writing.
When Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon appeared in French (as Hier), the media called it the pinnacle of Brossard's remarkable forty-year literary career. From its intersection of four women emerges a kind of art installation, a lively read in which life and death and the vertigo of ruins tangle themselves together to say something about history and desire and art.
By:
Nicole Brossard Translated by:
Susanne de Lotbinire-Harwood Imprint: Coach House Books Country of Publication: Canada Dimensions:
Height: 203mm,
Width: 127mm,
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 453g ISBN:9781552451502 ISBN 10: 155245150X Pages: 200 Publication Date:20 March 2001 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Commended for Governor General's Literary Awards (Translation) 2005
