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Product Description: Like a Child of the Earth, the first volume of Jovette Marchessaultâs autobiographical trilogy, won the Prix France-Québec in 1976. In it, the largely self-taught artist and author, who left school at the age of fourteen to work in a factory, reflects upon her Âyears of wandering before encountering painting and writing...read more
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9780889222618 | Talonbooks Ltd, July 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Like a Child of the Earth, the first volume of Jovette Marchessaultâs autobiographical trilogy, won the Prix France-Québec in 1976.
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9780889223141, titled "The Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr" | Talonbooks Ltd, August 1, 1993, cover price $12.95
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9780889222809 | Talonbooks Ltd, May 1, 1991, cover price $12.95
Product Description: Born at the end of the first volume in this autobiographical trilogy, the little Jovette sets off on her journey across the Land of Permanent Sacrifice in Mother of the Grass. Wrenched from her childhood paradise on the banks of the St...read more
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9780889222670 | Talonbooks Ltd, April 1, 1989, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Born at the end of the first volume in this autobiographical trilogy, the little Jovette sets off on her journey across the Land of Permanent Sacrifice in Mother of the Grass.
Product Description: Jovette Marchessault's Lesbian Triptych is an anthology of three stories - ""Night Cows,"" ""A Lesbian Chronicle from Medieval Quebec"" and ""The Angel Makers"" - evoking the best of the new wave of feminist writing in Quebec. Sensuous and fabulous language turn conventional images of women inside out; Marchessault challenges us to remake our patterns of language in a way that explodes the stereotypes of the past and ecstatically explores the contours of a feminist vision for the future...read more
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9780889610880 | Womens Pr, June 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Jovette Marchessault's Lesbian Triptych is an anthology of three stories - ""Night Cows,"" ""A Lesbian Chronicle from Medieval Quebec"" and ""The Angel Makers"" - evoking the best of the new wave of feminist writing in Quebec.
Product Description: One night in the Promised Land of the North of the Americas, at the centre of a fabulous vortex, four womenÂLaure Conan, Germaine Guèvremont, Gabrielle Roy and Anne HèbertÂmeet, and perform six tableaux. Onstage, the women talk and gallop, they sit and rock; they descend from the heavens like angels, they menstruate, they sing; they bake bread, they eat, they say Mass; they trade secrets, recite poetry, share their hopes and fears, their dreams and private terrors; they look into history, decide to collaborate, they write; they become hens, they support and give birth to each otherÂand to all women everywhere...read more
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9780889222137 | Talonbooks Ltd, December 1, 1983, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: One night in the Promised Land of the North of the Americas, at the centre of a fabulous vortex, four womenÂLaure Conan, Germaine Guèvremont, Gabrielle Roy and Anne HèbertÂmeet, and perform six tableaux.
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