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Spring Tides

Sheila Fischman

3.5/5 ( ratings)

“Poulin is a master of imagery and dialogue: They rest like froth on top of something much more murky and morose: an underlying fear of emptiness.”—The Silhouette

Peacefully employed on an uninhabited island, a translator of comic strips lives in the company of his dictionaries, his marauding cat, Matousalem, and his tennis ball machine . Convinced that the translator’s happiness is in jeopardy, his boss helicopters in a few solitude-seeking companions—the beautiful and elusive Marie with her flirtatious cat Moustache; the seductive nudist, Featherhead; Professor Moccasin, the half-deaf comic strip scholar; the moody and contradictory Author; the Ordinary Man; and the Organizer, sent to “sensitize the population.” As the spring tides drag ocean debris onto the shore, Teddy Bear and his companions seek out their own solitudes in this hilarious philosophical fable.

Jacques Poulin’s novels include Volkswagen Blues and La tournée d’automne . Poulin received the 1978 Governor General’s Award for Les Grandes Marées and the Molson Prize for lifetime artistic contribution in 1990 and 2000. He lives in Québec.

Language: English

Pages: 237

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Archipelago Books

Release: July 01, 2007

ISBN: 0977857646

ISBN 13: 9780977857647

Spring Tides

Sheila Fischman

3.5/5 ( ratings)

“Poulin is a master of imagery and dialogue: They rest like froth on top of something much more murky and morose: an underlying fear of emptiness.”—The Silhouette

Peacefully employed on an uninhabited island, a translator of comic strips lives in the company of his dictionaries, his marauding cat, Matousalem, and his tennis ball machine . Convinced that the translator’s happiness is in jeopardy, his boss helicopters in a few solitude-seeking companions—the beautiful and elusive Marie with her flirtatious cat Moustache; the seductive nudist, Featherhead; Professor Moccasin, the half-deaf comic strip scholar; the moody and contradictory Author; the Ordinary Man; and the Organizer, sent to “sensitize the population.” As the spring tides drag ocean debris onto the shore, Teddy Bear and his companions seek out their own solitudes in this hilarious philosophical fable.

Jacques Poulin’s novels include Volkswagen Blues and La tournée d’automne . Poulin received the 1978 Governor General’s Award for Les Grandes Marées and the Molson Prize for lifetime artistic contribution in 1990 and 2000. He lives in Québec.

Language: English

Pages: 237

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Archipelago Books

Release: July 01, 2007

ISBN: 0977857646

ISBN 13: 9780977857647

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