In 1966, R駛ean Ducharme, then a 24-year-old unknown, published L’Aval馥 des aval駸, this debut novel that would go on to serve as a zeitgeist for several generations of French-Canadian readers. At nine years old, Berenice feels trapped by home, family, and dogmas both real and invented. Precocious and over-intelligent, she despises her dysfunctional parents too viciously, loves her brother Christian too passionately, and follows the logical pirouettes of her imagination to conclusions too dangerous. She lives on a secluded island, where she hatches plans to run away with Christian and escape her mother’s needy overtures for affection. When on the cusp of puberty Berenice becomes too wild for even her parents to control, she’s sent to live in New York with her father’s ultra-religious relatives where, pushed to confine her impulses, she instead forces herself forward to new extremes.
Author: Madeleine Stratford, Réjean DuCharme
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Esplanade Books
Published: 04/01/2021
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781550655537
Language: English
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