Maggie Cassidy
by Jack Kerouac
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
The Tin Flute (New Canadian Library)
by Gabrielle Roy
from New Canadian Library
The Tin Flute, Gabrielle Roy’s first novel, is a classic of Canadian fiction. Imbued with Roy’s unique brand of compassion and compelling understanding, this moving story focuses on a family in the Saint-Henri slums of Montreal, its struggles to overcome poverty and ignorance, and its search for love.
An affecting story of familial tenderness, sacrifice, and survival during the Second World War, The Tin Flute won both the Governor General’s Award and the Prix Fémina of France. The novel was made into a critically acclaimed motion picture in 1983.
Enchantment and sorrow : the autobiography of Gabrielle Roy
le francais pratique I
Picounoc Le Maudit
by L. Pamphile LeMay
from LeClue 22
Natif de Lotbinière, il étudie à Trois-Rivières chez les frères des écoles chrétiennes et au petit séminaire de Québec, où il se lie d'amitié avec Louis-Honoré Fréchette. Il étudie le droit en 1858 puis décide de se trouver un emploi à Portland dans le Maine et à Sherbrooke. Revenu chez lui, il entreprend d'entrer chez les oblats et commence ses études de philosophie et la théologie. De santé fragile, il doit abandonner ses études, mais il se remet au droit et devient traducteur à l'Assemblée législative du Canada-Uni. Pour la plus grande partie de sa vie, il habite à la ville de Québec.
Shadow of the Wolf: Agaguk
Garden in the Wind (New Canadian Library)
by Gabrielle Roy
from New Canadian Library
Few writers portray the dignity of people trapped by poverty or emotional isolation as compassionately as Gabrielle Roy does in the four stories of western Canada that comprise Garden in the Wind. The effortless craft and poetic sensitivity evident in all her writing are here in full abundance as she recounts the stories of a tramp who belongs to no one, a Chinese immigrant struggling to fulfill his dream, Doukhobor settlers fired by a vision of a new land, and a lonely woman who nurtures her small but splendid garden. Imbued with a poignant simplicity, these are stories of sheer artistry.
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