Gabrielle Roy: A Life [Hardcover]

Francois Ricard (Author), Patricia Claxton (Translator)

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Release Date: May 8 1999

Despite the popularity and critical success Gabrielle Roy found as a writer, she lived a life often touched by sadness. In this definitive account of her life, François Ricard draws a penetrating and eloquent portrait that does full honour to his extraordinary subject.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 616 pages
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart (May 8 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0771074514
ISBN-13: 978-0771074516
Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 16.3 x 6.1 cm
Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,570,071 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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“Invites comparison with such magisterial works as Bell’s Virginia Woolf, Ellmann’s James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, and Haight’s George Eliot.”
–Toronto Star

About the Author

François Ricard is a professor of French literature at McGill University. He is the author of La Littérature contre elle-même (1985), which won a Governor GeneraI’s Award for non-fiction, and the bestselling La Génération lyrique (1992), a study of the baby-boomers. He lives in Montreal.