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Author: Gabrielle Roy
Publisher: New Canadian Library
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 077109860X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA family in the Saint-Henri slums of Montreal struggles to overcome poverty and ignorance while searching for love.
Author: Gabrielle Roy
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780803289475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSemiautobiographical and universal in appeal, Street of Riches is about a young girl's growing up in a suburb of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Here is Christine, the perceptive narrator of The Road Past Altamont (also a Bison Book), awakening to natural and sometimes terrifying beauty, to family history, to the nuances of social life, to sexuality, to selfhood. A mother's romantic yearning for freedom, a father's roving career as an immigration officer, a beautiful sister's early demise, a host of others in very human situations - all contribute to the way Christine will view the world as a writer. Gabrielle Roy has been called the Canadian Willa Cather because of their affinity in style and theme. Street of Riches won both the Governor-General's Award for Fiction and the French Prix Duvernay.
Author: Linda M. Clemente
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis illustrated biography highlights three pivotal phases in Gabrielle Roy's life and development as an author: her first twenty-seven years, which were spent growing up with her family in Manitoba; her two-year stay in France and England, in the late 1930s; and her return from Europe to live in Montreal. It was in this last period that Roy honed her craft and, through her travels across the country, learned about the Canada she came to describe in ways that altered the course of Canadian literature.
Author: Paula Gilbert Lewis
Publisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780917786051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gabrielle Roy
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780803289482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in French in 1966, The Road Past Altamont pierces to the heart of a child's world, craeting a delicate, yet substantial network of impressions, emotions, and relationships. In her writing, Gabrielle Roy allowed "nothing extraneous or false to stand," according to the translator, Joyce Marshall. The literary style of Roy, whose fiction reflects her childhood on the Canadian prairie, has often been compared to that of Willa Cather.øThe Road Past Altamont takes a sensitive French-Canadian girl, Christine, from childhood innocence to maturity. Four connected stories reveal profound moments during her early years in the vastness of Manitoba. Christine's testament to Grandmother's creative power, her great adventure with an old gentleman at Lake Winnipeg and her clandestine one with a crude family of movers, her journey through time and space with aging Maman?all these characters and events convey Gabrielle Roy's preoccupation with childhood and old age, the passage of time and mystery of change, and the artist's relation to the world.
Author: Gabrielle Roy
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Published: 1979
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ISBN-13: 9780771078385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gabrielle Roy
Publisher: Key Porter Books
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Traces the author's life from her Manitoba childhood to her return from a two-year stay in France and England just before World War II. She describes her isolation and alienation as she searched for an identity and a voice." -- Google books
Author: André Vanasse
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 1770706437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1945, Gabrielle Roy skyrocketed to fame and fortune when her first novel, The Tin Flute, was an instant hit. Over 700,000 copies sold in the United States, and the book was awarded the prestigious Prix Fna in France. In Canada, The Tin Flute received a Governor Generals Award. Gabrielle Roy dedicated herself to her vocation as a writer.
Author: Gabrielle Roy
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 1970-01-01
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780771078361
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor Elsa, a young Eskimo girl, the birth of her blond, blue-eyed son never ceases to be a source of intrigue. The story unfolds a woman's life, and a way of life, from the Canadian North to Vietnam.
Author: Gabrielle Roy
Publisher: New Canadian Library
Published: 2010-08-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 077109423X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew writers portray the dignity of people trapped by poverty or emotional isolation as compassionately as Gabrielle Roy does in the four stories of western Canada that comprise Garden in the Wind. The effortless craft and poetic sensitivity evident in all her writing are here in full abundance as she recounts the stories of a tramp who belongs to no one, a Chinese immigrant struggling to fulfill his dream, Doukhobor settlers fired by a vision of a new land, and a lonely woman who nurtures her small but splendid garden. Imbued with a poignant simplicity, these are stories of sheer artistry.
