Fiction of Gay Interest

Making Room
Michel Tremblay (trans Sheila Fischman)
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
London, UK

Year


1990 1st UK ed    signed by author (pic)       
first publ: Canada 1986
Cover / size: paperback / h 19.9 cm * w 12.8 cm / 248 pp

Dustjacket?   no

ISBN: 1852421622

Arbery Ref:   001298

Condition Good

Cover: slight damage to egdes; some discolouring / soiling; spine unbroken. See photo for signature. Pages browning slightly but otherwise clean.

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Tremblay: Making Rooms (signed)








Plot / Content:                              Rating: G

"'... I've got a mummy and three daddies!'

"Silence. All heads turned towards Sébastien. Mario hid his surprise with a nervous giggle, and then, as he got the picture, thought he'd really like to meet Sébastien's father ..."

(from the cover flap: complete blurb here)



Background / Biography:

Michel Tremblay, CQ (born in Montreal, Quebec 25 June 1942) is a Canadian novelist and playwright. The most profound and lasting effects of Tremblay's early plays, including Hosanna and La Duchesse de Langeais, were the barriers they toppled in Quebec society. Until the Quiet Revolution of the early 1960s, Tremblay saw Quebec as a poor, working-class province dominated by an English-speaking elite and the Roman Catholic Church. Tremblay's work was part of a vanguard of liberal, nationalist thought that helped create an essentially modern society. continued on Wikipedia English A slightly different analysis appears on Wikipedia français




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"I've always hated the bars. The simpatico spots where the regulars, tired of seeing the same faces bent over their glasses of lukewarm beer, turn towards the door with anxious optimism whenever a new silhouette appears, as well as those big trendy clubs, often ear-splittingly loud and crawling with the latest version of what passes for a smart set - dressed to kill and constantly on display and most them as dull as white icing. One night when I was feeling especially down, a guy told me, as I tried to fan a spark of conversation: "If talk's what you want, you're in the wrong place. Nobody listens here."

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