Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon
Nicole Brossard$19.51
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Carla Carlson is at the Hotel Clarendon in Quebec City trying to finish a novel. Nearby, a woman, preoccupied with sadness and infatuated with her boss, catalogues antiquities at the Museum of Civilization. Every night, the two women meet at the hotel bar and talk - about childhood and parents and landscapes, about time and art, about Descartes and Francis Bacon and writing.
When Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon appeared in French (as Hier), the media called it the pinnacle of Brossard's remarkable forty-year literary career. From its intersection of four women emerges a kind of art installation, a lively read in which life and death and the vertigo of ruins tangle themselves together to say something about history and desire and art.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: 03/19/2001
ISBN: 9781552451502
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.54w x 0.96d
Award: Governor General's Literary Awards - Finalist
Review Citations: Quill & Quire 06/01/2005 pg. 40