Life in the court of Matane / Eric Dupont ; translated from the French by Peter McCambridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dupont, Éric, 1970- author.

Contributor:

McCambridge, Peter, 1979- translator.

Standardized Title:

Bestiaire. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Imagination in children.

Québec--Québec.

Imagination in children--Fiction.

Québec (Québec)--Fiction.

Québec (Québec).

Québec.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

261 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Montréal, Québec : QC Fiction, [2016]

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

"Nadia Comaneci's gold-medal performance at the Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976 is the starting point for a whole new generation. Eric Dupont watches the performance on TV, mesmerized. The son of a police officer (Henry VIII) and a professional cook--as he likes to remind us--he grows up in the depths of the Quebec countryside with a new address for almost every birthday and little but memories of his mother to hang on to. His parents have divorced, and the novel's narrator relates his childhood, comparing it to a family gymnastics performance worthy of Nadia herself. Life in the Court of Matane is unforgiving and we explore different facets of it (dreams of sovereignty, schoolyard bullying, imagined missions to Russia, poems by Baudelaire), each based around an encounter with a different animal, until the narrator befriends a great horned owl, summons up the courage to let go of the upper bar forever, and makes his glorious escape."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Cat (1976) 15

Chapter 2 The Brown-Headed Cowbird (1979) 77

Chapter 3 The Winkle (1981) 101

Chapter 4 The Dog (1980) 133

Chapter 5 The Hens (1982) 189

Chapter 6 The Great Horned Owl (1983) 217.

ISBN:

9781771860765

1771860766

OCLC:

945358262

Publisher Number:

99971326644