Thunder and Light

by Marie-Claire Blais

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487004257
• ISBN13: 9781487004255
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: A List
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Governor General's Award Winner: Nigel Spencer

"Nigel Spencer's translation, like Marie-Claire Blais' novel, gathers in rhythm and intensity as it draws the reader inexorably into its world. Spencer rises to the many challenges of Blais' prose with deftness and grace, teaching us to read in a new way." The Jury: Governor General's Literary Awards.

Governor General's Finalist.

"Nigel Spencer (finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation) becomes our guide to the labyrinth of Marie-Claire Blais' fictional world. In so doing, the translator displays the same spirit of invention as the author."The Jury--Governor General's Literary Awards.

AN UNFORGETABLE AND STUNNING JOURNEY--U. of Rochester / ATTUNED TO OUR TIMES--Quill & Quire

======================================================================================= "TO READ HIM IS AN UNFORGETTABLE AND STUNNING JOURNEY." --Three Percent / Open Letter: University of Rochester. ======================================================================================= "ATTUNED TO OUR TIMES"--Quill & Quire Magazine THUNDER AND LIGHT is the sequel to THESE FESTIVE NIGHTS. [The latter] centres on a celebration; THUNDER AND LIGHT turns to death, its previews and versions and aftermaths. Anyone who has reveled in modernism's canon--ULYSSES, and much of Gertrude Stein especially--will float into the reading rhythm...once the rhythm sets in, readers will be stunned and startled by Blais' prose. Like all true novelists, she is also a soothsayer. In the narcissism of photographers and dancers and poets; in communities' resistance to immigrants and exiles and their origins; in the crazy hierarchies of of criminals and their judges, Blais attempts to define innocence. While documenting cases familiar from media overkill, Blais predicts cultural hotspots. In Manhattan, a street girl released carelessly from a mental institution warns of apocalypse..."and what if that lunatic's predictions were dead-on, then the city of New York was going down in floods, buildings and skyscrapers crumbling." Blais is a writer attuned to our times. --Lorna Jackson: QUILL & QUIRE, November, 2001