An edition of Doing the heart good (2002)

Un baume pour le coeur

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An edition of Doing the heart good (2002)

Un baume pour le coeur

roman

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"The beginning of Neil Bissoondath's new novel marks the end of a seventy-year-old man's independent life. Six months later, living with his daughter and her family, the smell of his destruction still hanging in his pyjamas, he goes shopping for Christmas presents, buying his daughter a pen and writing paper.

But the pen, lying dormant in its presentational box, propels him in a different direction, towards the one thing he has left: his memory, his past, that familiar territory unfailingly inhabited by a stranger's life - alien, inexplicable, untrustworthy.".

"As he describes his time and begins to clothe himself once more in the apparel that was him, his voice shakes off his age; there appears a new luster to his skin; he becomes. And the remembrance of love and quarrel, friendship and betrayal, war and peace - and the sudden brutality which can assault them all - lends coherence to a confused present, revealing the thread that connects him to a new life with his daughter, son-in-law and grandson.".

"Faced with a future he never anticipated, he begins to perform that strange and wonderful dance, moving forward while looking back at the receding journey, marvelling at how unrecognizable he is, growing stronger, doing his heart good."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Boréal
Language
French
Pages
410

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Cover of: Willkommen, Mr. Mackenzie
Willkommen, Mr. Mackenzie: Roman
2004, Liebeskind
in German
Cover of: Doing the heart good
Doing the heart good
2003, Cormorant Books
in English - 1st trade pbk. ed.
Cover of: Doing the heart good
Doing the heart good
2003, Scribner
in English
Cover of: Doing the heart good
Doing the heart good
2002, Cormorant Books
in English
Cover of: Un baume pour le coeur
Un baume pour le coeur: roman
2002, Boréal
in French
Cover of: Doing the heart good
Doing the heart good
2002, Scribner, Simon & Schuster
in English

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Classifications

Library of Congress
PS8553 I8775 D6514 2002 AEUSJ

The Physical Object

Pagination
410 p. ;
Number of pages
410

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL19593035M
Internet Archive
unbaumepourlecoe0000biss
ISBN 10
276460209X
OCLC/WorldCat
50842903
Goodreads
2387719

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