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When water became blue / Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette ; translated by Rhonda Mullins.
Van Pelt Library PQ3919.3.B3668 F4613 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barbeau-Lavalette, Anaïs, 1979- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Femme fleuve. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Sexual behavior--Fiction.
- Women.
- Dating (Social customs)--Fiction.
- Dating (Social customs).
- Man-woman relationships--Canada, Eastern--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Women authors--Fiction.
- Women authors.
- Painters--Saint Lawrence River--Fiction.
- Painters.
- Desire--Fiction.
- Desire.
- Adultery--Fiction.
- Adultery.
- Saint Lawrence River--Fiction.
- Saint Lawrence River.
- Genre:
- Feminist fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 167 pages : portraits ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : Coach House Books, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Annie Ernaux meets Annie Dillard in this sultry story of a woman's obsession with a painter -- and a river. A woman is on an artists' retreat on an island in the St. Lawrence Seaway, taking time away from her partner and her daughter to write. There she encounters a painter who spends his days with his easel set up on the shore trying to capture the blue of the water. They are drawn to each other, and their desire builds, through conversations about art and the colour blue, into a passionate extramarital affair, both deep and fleeting. Savage in its beauty, this new work from Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette is a novel of resilience and longing, staking out the territory of female desire, exploring how it's been regarded through the ages and how it's reflected in art and nature. Following the bestselling Suzanne and To the Forest, this latest offering in a series of novels about women by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette captures the power and beauty of desire set against the power and beauty of nature. An accomplished filmmaker, Barbeau-Lavalette writes with a visual flair, embodying both the calm and the turbulence of the river that runs through the story."-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Femme fleuve.
- Includes bibliographical references: page 165.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Barbeau-Lavalette, Anaïs, 1979- Femme fleuve. English. When water became blue.
- ISBN:
- 9781552455098
- 1552455092
- OCLC:
- 1499594446
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