| Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon Contributor(s): Brossard, Nicole (Author), de Lotbinière-Harwood, Susanne (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1552451658 ISBN-13: 9781552451656 Publisher: Coach House Books OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005440003 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5" W x 7.9" (0.75 lbs) 242 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |