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Exit : a novel / by Nelly Arcan ; translated by David Scott Hamilton.

by Arcan, Nelly, 1975-2009.

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Anvil Press, 2011, c2009.

Suicide -- Fiction.

Suicidal behavior -- Fiction.

Paraplegics -- Fiction.

Montréal (Québec) -- Fiction.

9781897535660 (softcover)

Paradis, clef en main. English English

Alternate title:

Paradis, clef en main.

191 p. ; 21 cm.

" 'Exit' was completed only days before Arcan took her own life in 2009 at the age of thirty-six"--Back cover.

Original French language title: Paradis, clef en main.

Translated from the French.

"Somewhere in Montreal, in the not too distant future, an obscure company offers custom-designed suicides for its clients with one condition: their desire to die must be pure and absolute. Antoinette Beauchamp is a successful candidate but her suicide is not. Now a bedridden paraplegic, hooked up to machines that monitor all her bodily functions, she tells her story, taking the reader into the Kafkaesque world of the company and its bewildering cast of characters. Exit is at once a profound examination of what it is that drives someone to want to end their life, as well as how that urge can be turned on its head against all odds. Written with her signature brio and acerbic wit, Nelly Arcan's last novel is a hymn to life."--Back cover.

French-Canadian fiction -- Translations into English.

Canadian fiction.

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