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Nothing For You Here, Young Man

Marie-Claire Blais author Nigel Spencer translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada

Published:26th Jun '14

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In the latest installment in her award-winning series, Marie-Claire Blais reintroduces us to Petites Cendres, familiar from other books in the cycle, and lets us into the lives of two other unforgettable characters. She shows us, once again, how creativity and hope and suffering and exclusion intersect.

There is the writer who is stranded in an airport of the South Island, he is held captive because of a delayed flight. And a teenage musician, a former child prodigy living on the streets with his dog, wonders where he will get his next meal. Then there is Petites Cendres, who no longer dances or sings and refuses to get out of bed to attend the coronation of the new Queen of Night.

By superimposing these three worlds, Blais continues her ambitious, compelling exploration of life in contemporary North America

ISBN: 9781770893573

Dimensions: 203mm x 133mm x 20mm

Weight: 226g

256 pages