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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 imp...
lettres à ses amies, 1945-1978
Correspondance de la romancière avec huit amies qui "toutes, à un titre ou à un autre, étaient des femmes de lettres : Simone Routier, Jeanne Lapo...
The eighteen stories in Gabrielle Roy's "Street of Riches" centre upon the bittersweet experiences of a young girl growing up in the francophone commu...
Set in the prairies in the 1930s, and rich with the author’s own memories of her time there as a young woman, this is a powerful story of an impress...
A SERIES OF REMINISCENCES THAT PAINT A COLOURFUL PICTURE OF RURAL QUEBEC. THE MOODS, RHYTHMS, AND SIMPLICITY OF LIFE ARE SENSITIVELY DESCRIBED. ORIGIN...
A family in the Saint-Henri slums of Montreal struggles to overcome poverty and ignorance while searching for love....
The Gabrielle Roy-Joyce Marshall Correspondence
Gabrielle Roy was one of the most prominent Canadian authors of the twentieth century. Joyce Marshall, an excellent writer herself, was one of Roy's E...
The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy
"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...
Articles and Memories, 1942-1970
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Penguin Modern Classics Edition
As emotionally evocative and stirring as Street of Riches, this latest compilation of semi-autobiographical vignettes continues Christine's stories of...
suite inédite de La détresse et l'enchantement
Quatre premiers chapitres (les années 1939-1943), de la troisième partie d'une autobiographie qui devait en comporter quatre et dont les deux premi�...
THE ODYSSEY OF A VISIONARY YOUNG ARTIST IN QUEST OF ARTISTIC PERFECTION TAKES HIM ACROSS CANADA'S NORTHLAND, AND TO PARIS. EXCELLENT DESCRIPTION OF TH...
In Alexandre Chenevert, the Montreal bank teller trapped by his narrow environment and acutely aware of his loneliness, Gabrielle Roy has created a vi...
NOW A PENGUIN MODERN CLASSIC: An affecting story of familial tenderness, sacrifice, and survival, The Tin Flute is imbued with Roy's unique brand of c...
roman ; précédé de Trois nouvelles esquimaudes
Illustrated by Jean-Yves Ahern. Translated by Patricia Claxton....
The Letters of Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy
The books of Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy are among the most beloved in Canadian literature. In 1976, when both were at the height of their car...
Novel about a young Eskimo mother trying to find what is best for her son....
The story of "Where Nests the Water Hen" is as pure as the lives of the people in it - and as unforgettable. Set in the remote wilderness of northern ...
When her father buys a cow, a little girl must take care of it. She begins to respect the cow when she realizes that she can sell its milk. Grades K-3...
roman
" ... the theme of urban alienation is articulated through the figure of a lonely bank-clerk"--The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, quote...
Few writers portray the dignity of people trapped by poverty or emotional isolation as compassionately as Gabrielle Roy does in the four stories of we...
roman, précédé de Trois nouvelles esquimaudes
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Trapped by poverty and unemployment in the slums of Montreal, Rosanna LaCasse and her eldest daughter cope differently with the problems of urban livi...
Rǐmpression 1954. Alexandre Chenevert pressent que la vraie vie est ailleurs, mais qu'y faire quand on est un modeste caissier de banque? Gabrielle R...
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 ...
Alexandre Chenevert, Caissier