"The Four Lives of Marie: Marie wanted to write the adventures of Mary Simpson, to raise four boys and four girls, to walk all the way to Tierra del Fuego. She wanted it all . . . but instead she sold cheap shoes on Mount Royal Street, she wrote fiery words on the walls, she stuffed bingo balls down her shirt on television and slept a lot.

In four tableaux, each inspired by a different genre, we follow the voyage of a bold woman, from the moment she left for school one sunny May morning to her frantic escape, many years later, alone in a rickety boat on the high seas.".

"Elisa's Skin: A woman tells delicate tales of love. She insists on the minute and most intimate details: the beating heart, the sweaty palms, the skin that shivers to the touch. She evokes the memory of crazy Sigfried, of Jan who wanted it all and right now, of Edmund who waited for her under the trees and also of chubby Ginette and of Anna who told her things that we all dream of hearing. She speaks feverishly as though she is in danger, as though her heart, her life, her skin depends on it.

Little by little, through her portraits, she reveals what it is that drives her to tell stories and lets us in on the strange secret that a young man shared with her one day, in a coffee shop . . .".

"Seven Days in the Life of Simon Labrosse: Unemployed but earnest, Simon Labrosse invites the public to witness a few scenes from his life. His friends - Leo the dark poet and Nathalie the personal development fanatic - do the best they can in their various supporting roles, while Simon shares his countless infallible plans for his "reinsertion" into public life.

By turns emotional stunt man, finisher of sentences, ego enhancer and emptiness eradicator, he desperately tries to find his place in society and struggles feverishly against the system that is smothering him. A tightrope walker of modern times, he is engaged in a balancing act between the comic nature of his existence and the tragic tone of his solitude."--BOOK JACKET.