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Book Title
Road Past Altamont
Publication Name
The Road Past Altamont
Title
The Road Past Altamont
Author
Gabrielle Roy
Translator
Joyce Marshall
Contributor
Joyce Marshall (Translated by)
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0803289480
EAN
9780803289482
ISBN
9780803289482
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Genre
Fiction
Release Date
01/12/1993
Release Year
1993
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.4in
Item Length
8in
Item Weight
7 Oz
Publication Year
1993
Topic
Cultural Heritage, General
Item Width
5.2in
Number of Pages
147 Pages

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First published in French in 1966, The Road Past Altamont pierces to the heart of a child's world, craeting a delicate, yet substantial network of impressions, emotions, and relationships. In her writing, Gabrielle Roy allowed "nothing extraneous or false to stand," according to the translator, Joyce Marshall. The literary style of Roy, whose fiction reflects her childhood on the Canadian prairie, has often been compared to that of Willa Cather. The Road Past Altamont takes a sensitive French-Canadian girl, Christine, from childhood innocence to maturity. Four connected stories reveal profound moments during her early years in the vastness of Manitoba. Christine's testament to Grandmother's creative power, her great adventure with an old gentleman at Lake Winnipeg and her clandestine one with a crude family of movers, her journey through time and space with aging Maman--all these characters and events convey Gabrielle Roy's preoccupation with childhood and old age, the passage of time and mystery of change, and the artist's relation to the world.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803289480
ISBN-13
9780803289482
eBay Product ID (ePID)
690563

Product Key Features

Book Title
Road Past Altamont
Author
Gabrielle Roy
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, General
Publication Year
1993
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
147 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
7 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pq3919.R74r613 1993
Reviews
"[This] book is quite outside the trend of modern fiction. . . . Yet, with a craft so adroit that it seems like instinct itself, it lights up many thoroughfares of the human heart. . . . Miss Roy takes the very pulse of wonder, love, aging, the dividends of solitude, the interweaving of generations."-New York Times Book Review, ""A consummate artist . . . Miss Roy communicates masterfully, with a beauty which is quite indescribable.""-- Toronto Star ""[This] book is quite outside the trend of modern fiction. . . . Yet, with a craft so adroit that it seems like instinct itself, it lights up many thoroughfares of the human heart. . . . Miss Roy takes the very pulse of wonder, love, aging, the dividends of solitude, the interweaving of generations.""-- New York Times Book Review, "A consummate artist . . . Miss Roy communicates masterfully, with a beauty which is quite indescribable."- Toronto Star, "A consummate artist . . . Miss Roy communicates masterfully, with a beauty which is quite indescribable."-Toronto Star, "[This] book is quite outside the trend of modern fiction. . . . Yet, with a craft so adroit that it seems like instinct itself, it lights up many thoroughfares of the human heart. . . . Miss Roy takes the very pulse of wonder, love, aging, the dividends of solitude, the interweaving of generations."- New York Times Book Review
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
93-014195
Dewey Decimal
843

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