Product Description
Remarkable images, thoughts, and memories come together, fusing autobiography, sensory fiction, and poetic prose in this beautiful novel by acclaimed Qubcoise poet, Hlne Dorion. Memory and imagination are the settings for
Days of Sand, where Dorion interweaves place, time, and existence into a present made whole by her deft use of language; this is a novel in which the permanent immediacy of all times and places of existence itself is illuminated. Touching on her time in hospital as a child, vacations spent along the St. Lawrence and the coast of Maine, family stories and histories, Dorion takes the reader into her intimately recorded emotions and carefully observed daily existence, in which the quotidian detail is illuminated by the poet's perception, memory, and language. An intimate study of the power of words and language, body and self,
Days of Sand is a meditation that resonates with the stories of a life not merely lived, but experienced in a child's growing awareness of the greater world.
About the Author
Hlne Dorion, originally from Qubec City, lives outside of Montreal. Recently the winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry for her book, Ravir: les lieux, she has been nominated for, or won, every prize available to a French-language poet in Canada, including the Prix Anne-Hbert. She has been writer in residence at the Universit de Qubec in Montral, the literary director of ditions du Norot, and a co-producer for the very successful audio series, "Posie-Musique."
