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Synopsis
In The Road Past Altamont, Roy daringly returns to the same characters and the nearly identical timespan of Street of Riches, but by looking at her subjects with an entirely fresh vision, she creates a wholly new and deeply personal story of young Christine’s decision to become a writer.
This haunting and poignant tale weaves a delicate but substantial network of impressions, emotions, and human relationships.
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First published in French in 1966, The Road Past Altamont pierces to the heart of a child's world, creating a delicate, yet substantial network of impressions, emotions, and relationships. In her writing, Gabrielle Roy allowed "nothing extraneous or false to stand", according to the translator, Joyce Marshall. The literary style of Roy, whose fiction reflects her childhood on the Canadian prairie, has often been compared to that of Willa Cather. The Road Past Altamont takes a sensitive French-Canadian girl, Christine, from childhood innocence to maturity. Four connected stories reveal profound moments during her early years in the vastness of Manitoba. Christine's testament to Grandmother's creative power, her great adventure with an old gentleman at Lake Winnipeg and her clandestine one with a crude family of movers, her journey through time and space with aging Maman - all these characters and events convey Gabrielle Roy's preoccupation with childhood and old age, the passage of time and mystery of change, and the artist's relation to the world.
About the Author
GABRIELLE ROY -- author of The Tin Flute, Where Nests the Water Hen, The Road Past Altamont, The Cashier, Children of My Heart, and many other books — was a three-time winner of the Governor General's Award; she also won the Prix Femina, the Prix David, the Prix Duvernay, the Molson Award, and the Canada Council Medal for outstanding cultural achievement.
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- PublisherNew Canadian Library
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0771094248
- ISBN 13 9780771094248
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages168
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