Ha! : a self-murder mystery / written and directed by Gordon Sheppard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheppard, Gordon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aquin, Hubert, 1929-1977.

Aquin, Hubert.

Suicide victims--Québec (Province)--Biography.

Suicide victims.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 868 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2003]

Summary:

With his wife's consent, on March 15, 1977, celebrated writer and former terrorist Hubert Aquin blew his brains out on the grounds of a Montreal convent school. Shocked by this self-murder, a filmmaker friend feels compelled to understand why Aquin killed himself - and discovers, at the heart of this tragedy, an unforgettable love story. Interweaving photographs, documents, and images with testimony from Aquin's friends and contemporaries, Aquin himself, and the writers and artists who influenced him, this intriguing novel takes the reader on a Joycean tour of a metropolis in the midst of political and cultural turmoil and a Dantesque journey into the underworld of creative genius.

ISBN:

0773523456

OCLC:

52107261