Les ombres blanches
by Dominique Fortier
Description
It’s 1886 and Emily Dickinson has died. In her bedroom, the mattress misses the weight of a body, the ink languishes in the inkwell, the pen dreams of the poems it hasn’t written. And hundreds of scraps of paper wait eagerly to take flight. Emily has left our world, but a poetess is about to be born.
Rescued by her sister Lavinia, poems scribbled on flaps of envelopes and packages of sugar will forever change the lives of those closest to Emily: her distant and secretive brother Austin, her sister-in-law Susan, who “lives year-round in Norway,” their beguiling and ambitious neighbor Mabel (who’s also Austin’s mistress), and young Millicent, a dreamy, whimsical girl who’ll become Emily’s spiritual (and eventually literary) heir.
With finesse and compassion, Les ombres blanches chronicles a body of work that was very nearly lost, the loves, sorrows, and devotion of those who brought it to light, and the passing of a reclusive woman known as “the Myth.” After the magnificent Paper Houses, which delved into Dickinson’s life and works, Dominique Fortier delivers a tender, profound, and poetic tale about grief, legacy, and the mesmerizing power of words.
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Author Biography
Dominique Fortier is an editor and translator living in Outremont, Quebec. Her first novel, On the Proper Use of Stars (2008), was nominated for a Governor General’s Award, and The Island of Books won the Governor General’s Award for French fiction. She received the Renaudot Prize for non-fiction with Paper Houses. She is the author of six novels, four of which have been translated into English.
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- Publisher Alto
- Publication Date March 2022
- Orginal LanguageFrench
- ISBN/Identifier 9782896945184
- Publication Country or regionCanada
- FormatPaperback
- Pages248
- Publish StatusPublished
- EditionAlto
- Copyright Year2022
- Dimensions5*8 inches
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