The River of Dead Trees (Paperback)

Nathalie Stephens

ISBN 10: 1552451747 / ISBN 13: 9781552451748

Editore: Coach House Books, Toronto, 2002

Paperback. Middle-aged and short on prospects, Charles Wilson returns to Trempes, the village of his childhood, and discovers the body of his childhood friend, Paul Faber, hanging from a tree in the clearing where they played as boys. Thus begins Wilson's obsessive quest to exhume the secrets of his past and to understand the reasons for his friend's death. But memories shift, people change and things are never as they seem. Soon Wilson finds himself caught up in a delusory spiral that threatens his very existence.This is at once a neo-Gothic metaphysical thriller and a meticulous meditation on the unapologetic betrayal of memory and imagination. Wilson's story bubbles up from the faults between mystery and fairy tale, brimming with characters haunted and tortured by the past, where truth and deception are wound up in time like the gnarled branches of old, grizzled trees. Fiction. Middle-aged and short on prospects, Charles Wilson returns to Trempes, the village of his childhood, and discovers the body of his childhood friend, Paul Faber, hanging from a tree in the clearing where they played as boys. Thus begins Wilson's obsessive quest to exhume the secrets of his past and to understand the reasons for his friend's death. But memories shift, people change and things are never as they seem. Soon Wilson finds himself caught up in a delusory spiral that threatens his very existence. Since La Femme de Sath, a book unanimously acclaimed by critics in Quebec, Andree A. Michaud has built a distinguished oeuvre. Her fifth novel, Le Ravissement, won a Governor General's Award for Fiction in 2001 and was nominated for several other prizes, as was Le Pendu de Trempes. Her seventh novel will be published in October 2006 by Editions Quebec Amerique. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781552451748

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Middle-aged and short on prospects, Charles Wilson returns to Trempes, the village of his childhood, and discovers the body of his childhood friend, Paul Faber, hanging from a tree in the clearing where they played as boys. Thus begins Wilson’s obsessive quest to exhume the secrets of his past and to understand the reasons for his friend’s death. But memories shift, people change and things are never as they seem. Soon Wilson finds himself caught up in a delusory spiral that threatens his very existence.

This is at once a neo-Gothic metaphysical thriller and a meticulous meditation on the unapologetic betrayal of memory and imagination. Wilson’s story bubbles up from the faults between mystery and fairy tale, brimming with characters haunted and tortured by the past, where truth and deception are wound up in time like the gnarled branches of old, grizzled trees.

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Titolo: The River of Dead Trees (Paperback)
Casa editrice: Coach House Books, Toronto
Data di pubblicazione: 2002
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: new