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Fault Lines»rank: 1434par: Nancy Huston
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DOLCE AGONIA»rank: 76295par: NANCY HUSTON
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:0n a snowy Thanksgiving in a small New England college town, a motley group of 13 has gathered to celebrate at the home of poet Sean Farrell. Among them are a bulimic surgeon, an anorexic, Holocaust-obsessed philosophy professor, a secretary, a leftist lawyer, an 80-year-old Jewish baker from South Africa, a failed Belarussian painter, a famous novelist, his former-prostitute wife, and their infant son. As the feasting and imbibing progress through the evening, we are presented with a panoramic snapshot of the characters' lives--past, present, and future, and in particular, ... |
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Fault Lines»rank: 21301par: Nancy Huston
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:0n a snowy Thanksgiving in a small New England college town, a motley group of 13 has gathered to celebrate at the home of poet Sean Farrell. Among them are a bulimic surgeon, an anorexic, Holocaust-obsessed philosophy professor, a secretary, a leftist lawyer, an 80-year-old Jewish baker from South Africa, a failed Belarussian painter, a famous novelist, his former-prostitute wife, and their infant son. As the feasting and imbibing progress through the evening, we are presented with a panoramic snapshot of the characters' lives--past, present, and future, and in particular, ... |
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Fault Lines»rank: 15612par: Nancy Huston
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:0n a snowy Thanksgiving in a small New England college town, a motley group of 13 has gathered to celebrate at the home of poet Sean Farrell. Among them are a bulimic surgeon, an anorexic, Holocaust-obsessed philosophy professor, a secretary, a leftist lawyer, an 80-year-old Jewish baker from South Africa, a failed Belarussian painter, a famous novelist, his former-prostitute wife, and their infant son. As the feasting and imbibing progress through the evening, we are presented with a panoramic snapshot of the characters' lives--past, present, and future, and in particular, ... |
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Plainsong»rank: 65310par: Nancy Huston
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Nancy Huston's Plainsong is both a cleverly contrived lament for the wreck of one man's life and a portrait of western Canada in its raw and unforgiving years. As a child, the narrator made a promise to her now-deceased grandfather to complete his grand exegesis on the philosophy of time. The book that results, however, is instead a half-invented, half-factual biography of the grandfather, Paddon Sterling, in Great Depression-era Alberta. Sterling was many things: the son of an upper-crust woman who moved to the Prairies to marry a rancher; a ... |
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Little Book Of Atheist Spirituality»rank: 34850par: Andre Comte-sponville
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Nancy Huston's Plainsong is both a cleverly contrived lament for the wreck of one man's life and a portrait of western Canada in its raw and unforgiving years. As a child, the narrator made a promise to her now-deceased grandfather to complete his grand exegesis on the philosophy of time. The book that results, however, is instead a half-invented, half-factual biography of the grandfather, Paddon Sterling, in Great Depression-era Alberta. Sterling was many things: the son of an upper-crust woman who moved to the Prairies to marry a rancher; a ... |
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The mark of the angel»rank: 103871par: Nancy Huston
Chroniques et points de vue:From :From Nancy Huston, a Canadian writer who's lived in France for a couple of decades, comes a modest proposal in the form of a novel: Maybe millennial fiction shouldn't look forward. Maybe it should look back to the shames and sadnesses of the 20th century. The Mark of the Angel, Huston's U.S. debut and a bestseller in France, tells the story of Saffie, a young German girl who takes a job as a housekeeper in 1957 Paris. Her employer, a brilliant young flautist named Raphael, falls hard for her, ... |
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LETTRES PARISIENNES : HISTOIRES D'EXIL»rank: 119644par: NANCY HUSTON
Chroniques et points de vue:From :From Nancy Huston, a Canadian writer who's lived in France for a couple of decades, comes a modest proposal in the form of a novel: Maybe millennial fiction shouldn't look forward. Maybe it should look back to the shames and sadnesses of the 20th century. The Mark of the Angel, Huston's U.S. debut and a bestseller in France, tells the story of Saffie, a young German girl who takes a job as a housekeeper in 1957 Paris. Her employer, a brilliant young flautist named Raphael, falls hard for her, ... |
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An Adoration»rank: 133581par: Nancy Huston
Chroniques et points de vue:From :From Nancy Huston, a Canadian writer who's lived in France for a couple of decades, comes a modest proposal in the form of a novel: Maybe millennial fiction shouldn't look forward. Maybe it should look back to the shames and sadnesses of the 20th century. The Mark of the Angel, Huston's U.S. debut and a bestseller in France, tells the story of Saffie, a young German girl who takes a job as a housekeeper in 1957 Paris. Her employer, a brilliant young flautist named Raphael, falls hard for her, ... |
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Journal de la création 470 Bab»rank: 135190par: Nancy Huston
Chroniques et points de vue:From :From Nancy Huston, a Canadian writer who's lived in France for a couple of decades, comes a modest proposal in the form of a novel: Maybe millennial fiction shouldn't look forward. Maybe it should look back to the shames and sadnesses of the 20th century. The Mark of the Angel, Huston's U.S. debut and a bestseller in France, tells the story of Saffie, a young German girl who takes a job as a housekeeper in 1957 Paris. Her employer, a brilliant young flautist named Raphael, falls hard for her, ... |