Back Roads
Published on 14. May 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-4870-0580-1 (ISBN)
Description
In Scotiabank Giller Prize-longlisted author Andree A. Michaud's genre-defying, ethereal mystery, a writer encounters her double and must grapple with an undetermined crime - and her own identity.
In the dubious sanctuary of a wintry forest, a writer encounters a woman who she suspects may be her double. So begins a journey of inquiry in which nothing, not even the author's own identity, is certain. Who is Heather Thorne? Is she a stranger dangerously out of place in the woods, the victim of an accident or of a crime? Who is the author? Is her own name not in fact Heather Thorne?
Brimming with the snowy menace and mystery of the boreal woods, where nothing is ever entirely known, the celebrated and prize-winning Quebec noir novelist Andree A. Michaud once again defies categorization in an ethereal story that is also a meditation on the very process of literary creation.
In the dubious sanctuary of a wintry forest, a writer encounters a woman who she suspects may be her double. So begins a journey of inquiry in which nothing, not even the author's own identity, is certain. Who is Heather Thorne? Is she a stranger dangerously out of place in the woods, the victim of an accident or of a crime? Who is the author? Is her own name not in fact Heather Thorne?
Brimming with the snowy menace and mystery of the boreal woods, where nothing is ever entirely known, the celebrated and prize-winning Quebec noir novelist Andree A. Michaud once again defies categorization in an ethereal story that is also a meditation on the very process of literary creation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Concord
Canada
Product notice
With flaps
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4870-0580-1 (9781487005801)
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ANDREE A. MICHAUD is one of the most beloved and celebrated writers in the French language. She is, among numerous accolades, a two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award and has won the Arthur Ellis Award for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing, the Prix Ringuet, and France's Prix SNCF du Polar. Her novel Boundary was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and has been published in seven territories, and the English translation of Back Roads was a finalist for Governor General's Literary Award. She was born in Saint-Sebastien-de-Frontenac and continues to live in the province of Quebec.
J. C. SUTCLIFFE is a translator, writer, and editor. Her translation of Back Roads by Andree A. Michaud was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award. Her other translations include Mama's Boy and Mama's Boy Behind Bars by David Goudreault, Document 1 by Francois Blais, and Worst Case, We Get Married by Sophie Bienvenu. She has written for the Globe and Mail, the Times Literary Supplement, and the National Post, among others. She lives in Peterborough, Ontario.
J. C. SUTCLIFFE is a translator, writer, and editor. Her translation of Back Roads by Andree A. Michaud was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award. Her other translations include Mama's Boy and Mama's Boy Behind Bars by David Goudreault, Document 1 by Francois Blais, and Worst Case, We Get Married by Sophie Bienvenu. She has written for the Globe and Mail, the Times Literary Supplement, and the National Post, among others. She lives in Peterborough, Ontario.