Research Catalog

Title

The red notebook / Michel Tremblay ; translated by Sheila Fischman.

Author

Tremblay, Michel, 1942-

Publication

Vancouver : Talonbooks, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Fischman, Sheila

Description

287 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"The year is 1967 - Expo - and everyone else in Montreal is waiting for the great day when they can visit the exotic foreign pavilions. For the characters of The Red Notebook, the second in Tremblay's Notebook trilogy, life in Montreal has shaken off its conservative glumness as a new age arrives. Change is everywhere in the air: politically the Quebec independence movement has been given a major boost by Charles de Gaulle's famous "Vive le Quebec libre!" declaration; and things will never be the same. Celine Poulin, former waitress at the bohemian hangout "Le Select," is now about to start a new job: that of hostess in a bordello just opened by Montreal's famous Madame, Fine Dumas. Its specialty? All the "girls" in "Le Boudoir" are transvestites. Some are old pals of Celine's who'll also be her room-mates after she finally escapes the stifling unhappiness of her family home and moves into their communal boarding house." "Having always maintained that he does not write politics, but fables, Tremblay celebrates how it is possible for Celine to embrace her difference and to flourish in solidarity with a community of others with transcendent eloquence and compassion."--Couv.

Uniform Title

Cahier rouge. English

Alternative Title

Cahier rouge.

Subject

• Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau)
• Expo 67 (Montréal, Québec)
• Montréal (Québec) > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Canadian fiction.
• novels.
• Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Novels
• Romans.

Note

• Translation of: Le cahier rouge.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9780889225886 (pbk.)
• 0889225885

LCCN

^^2008472769

OCLC

221160622

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library