Spectral Living
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Calgary Press
Published:31st Jul '21
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Marian lives in a world of spectres. She is devoted to her research on ghosts in Québécois literature to the exclusion of nearly everything else, including her husband. When an after-hours encounter at a conference sparks an uncomfortable attraction to her professor, Rémy, the ghosts of her research begin to haunt her-all too literally.
As his flirtation with Marian becomes a full-blown affair, Rémy wonders if he's courting his own demise. Not only is he betraying his fiancé, he is also violating university policy, putting his career at risk. Desperate to create art out of chaos, he revives his long-held dream of becoming a writer and, in the process, must confront the tales he tells himself and others.
Spectral Living is a poignant and funny story about the tension between worlds: between the academic and the artistic, between the living and the dead, between languages, and between people-even in their most intimate relationships.
ISBN: 9781773851471
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 333g
192 pages