Heroine
Heroine It is October the th anniversary of the October Crisis In a bathtub in a rooming house near the city s heart Montreal s Main a woman is trying to negotiate her personal passage from Quebec
It is October, 1980, the 10th anniversary of the October Crisis In a bathtub in a rooming house near the city s heart, Montreal s Main, a woman is trying to negotiate her personal passage from Quebec s politically turbulent 70 s to the threatening bleakness of the 80 s She is negotiating other passages too from a passionate open love affair with a male left leader,It is October, 1980, the 10th anniversary of the October Crisis In a bathtub in a rooming house near the city s heart, Montreal s Main, a woman is trying to negotiate her personal passage from Quebec s politically turbulent 70 s to the threatening bleakness of the 80 s She is negotiating other passages too from a passionate open love affair with a male left leader, and from deep involvement in far left politics, to a new way of life and living whose form she knows can only be grasped as she speaks it.
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Gail Scott
Gail Scott Is a well-known author, some of his books are a fascination for readers like in the
Maybe best as a series of puzzle, of form, but in terms of content and narrative, a gross failure. We read this in my book club and no one else liked it. Several of the problems included:- repetition.- lack of development.- lack of sympathy with anyone in the novel.- repetition?
i would like to read this book.
I haven't read "Heroine" since it was first issued, but I still remember my disappointment. I wanted so much more from it than it gave.
Experimental, compelling and confounding. Queer, feminist cut-up style stoned dreams of love and power and glued back together in the obscure and radical political discord of 70s Quebec.
So good.
Re-read for the first time since 2003. Still beautiful, sad, compelling.