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Blais, Marie-Claire, 1939-2021.
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Older men -- Fiction.
Transgender men -- Fiction.
Sexual minorities -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Gay liberation movement -- Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
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Blais, Marie-Claire, 1939-2021.
Older men -- Fiction.
Transgender men -- Fiction.
Sexual minorities -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Gay liberation movement -- Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
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Nights
too
short
to
dance
/ Marie-Claire Blais ; translated by Katia Grubisic.
by
Blais, Marie-Claire, 1939-2021.
Second Story Press, 2023.
Call #:
FICTION BLA
Subjects
Older men -- Fiction.
Transgender men -- Fiction.
Sexual minorities -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Gay liberation movement -- Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781772603507 (trade pbk.)
Uniform title:
Cœur habiť de mille voix. English
Description:
215 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"Originally published in French, copyright © 2021 by Les Éditions du Boréal, as Un coeur habité de mille voix"--Preliminaries.
Summary:
René suddenly feels like an old man. In his 90s, recovering at home after an illness, his mind will not leave the past. He is both comforted and annoyed by the officious care provided by his Russian nurse, who keeps referring to him as a woman. It is a lifetime struggle. Right now, René just wants to get out of his pajamas and dress elegantly, as in the old days of playing piano in cabarets. A friend--or lover--will surely visit? And they do. René is soon surrounded. By the writer Johnie, the musician Doudouline, the theologian Polydor, the painter l'Abeille, and Gérard, a lover of forbidden pleasures.They support each other, offering shelter from the cold, snowy world outside. They reminisce about past loves, tragedies, fights. The Stonewall riots. The AIDS pandemic where they lost so much. The Women's March on Washington. They steel themselves to take on the monster of bigotry and intolerance whenever it rears its ugly head, as it always does, again and again. Most of all, they find comfort and hope in each other's presence, and in the fight that so many are continuing: to assert our own identities, to love how we wish, and not be defined by what society expects.
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French-Canadian fiction -- Translations into English.
Canadian fiction.
2SLGBTQIA+ fiction.
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