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Book The Tin Flute

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gabrielle Roy
  • Publisher : New Canadian Library
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 077109860X
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book The Tin Flute written by Gabrielle Roy and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 1989 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family in the Saint-Henri slums of Montreal struggles to overcome poverty and ignorance while searching for love.

Book Street of Riches

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gabrielle Roy
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1993-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803289475
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Street of Riches written by Gabrielle Roy and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semiautobiographical 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.

Book Gabrielle Roy

Download or read book Gabrielle Roy written by Linda M. Clemente and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.

Book The Literary Vision of Gabrielle Roy

Download or read book The Literary Vision of Gabrielle Roy written by Paula Gilbert Lewis and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 1984 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Road Past Altamont

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gabrielle Roy
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1993-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803289482
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book The Road Past Altamont written by Gabrielle Roy and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First 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.

Book Children of My Heart

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gabrielle Roy
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN : 9780771078385
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Children of My Heart written by Gabrielle Roy and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Enchantment and Sorrow

Download or read book Enchantment and Sorrow written by Gabrielle Roy and published by Key Porter Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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

Book Gabrielle Roy

Download or read book Gabrielle Roy written by André Vanasse and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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.

Book Windflower

Download or read book Windflower written by Gabrielle Roy and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 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.

Book Garden in the Wind

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gabrielle Roy
  • Publisher : New Canadian Library
  • Release : 2010-08-03
  • ISBN : 077109423X
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Garden in the Wind written by Gabrielle Roy and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few 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.

Book The Road Past Altamont

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gabrielle Roy
  • Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book The Road Past Altamont written by Gabrielle Roy and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1976 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First 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. The 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.

Book Combustion Processes in Propulsion

Download or read book Combustion Processes in Propulsion written by Gabriel Roy and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2006 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chemical propulsion comprises the science and technology of using chemical reactions of any kind to create thrust and thereby propel a vehicle or object to a desired acceleration and speed. Cumbustion Processes in Propulsion focuses on recent advances in the design of very highly efficient, low-pollution-emitting propulsion systems, as well as advances in testing, diagnostics and analysis. It offers unique coverage of Pulse Detonation Engines, which add tremendous power to jet thrust by combining high pressure with ignition of the air/fuel mixture. Readers will learn about the advances in the reduction of jet noise and toxic fuel emissions-something that is being heavily regulated by relevant government agencies. Lead editor is one of the world's foremost combustion researchers, with contributions from some of the world's leading researchers in combustion engineering Covers all major areas of chemical propulsion-from combustion measurement, analysis and simulation, to advanced control of combustion processes, to noise and emission control Includes important information on advanced technologies for reducing jet engine noise and hazardous fuel combustion emissions

Book French Twentieth Bibliography

Download or read book French Twentieth Bibliography written by Douglas W. Alden and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1992-04 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of bibliographical references is one of the most important tools for research in modern and contemporary French literature. No other bibliography represents the scholarly activities and publications of these fields as completely.

Book Journey with No Maps

Download or read book Journey with No Maps written by Sandra Djwa and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet, traveller, artist, and mystic - the story of one extraordinary woman's many lives.

Book The Black Atlantic Reconsidered

Download or read book The Black Atlantic Reconsidered written by Winfried Siemerling and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers are often surprised to learn that black writing in Canada is over two centuries old. Ranging from letters, editorials, sermons, and slave narratives to contemporary novels, plays, poetry, and non-fiction, black Canadian writing represents a rich body of literary and cultural achievement. The Black Atlantic Reconsidered is the first comprehensive work to explore black Canadian literature from its beginnings to the present in the broader context of the black Atlantic world. Winfried Siemerling traces the evolution of black Canadian witnessing and writing from slave testimony in New France and the 1783 "Book of Negroes" through the work of contemporary black Canadian writers including George Elliott Clarke, Austin Clarke, Dionne Brand, David Chariandy, Wayde Compton, Esi Edugyan, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, and Lawrence Hill. Arguing that black writing in Canada is deeply imbricated in a historic transnational network, Siemerling explores the powerful presence of black Canadian history, slavery, and the Underground Railroad, and the black diaspora in the work of these authors. Individual chapters examine the literature that has emerged from Quebec, Nova Scotia, the Prairies, and British Columbia, with attention to writing in both English and French. A major survey of black writing and cultural production, The Black Atlantic Reconsidered brings into focus important works that shed light not only on Canada's literature and history, but on the transatlantic black diaspora and modernity.

Book Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible one-volume encyclopedia, this addition to the Literary Movements series is a comprehensive reference guide to the history and development of feminist literature, from early fairy tales to works by great women writers of today. Hundred

Book IB World Schools Yearbook 2011

Download or read book IB World Schools Yearbook 2011 written by Wendy Bosberry-Scott and published by John Catt Educational Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This yearbook is the official guide to schools offering the International Baccalaureate Diploma, Middle Years and Primary Years programmes. It tells you where the schools are and what they offer, and provides up-to-date information about the IB programmes and the International Baccalaureate Organization.