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livre, premier d'une trilogie, que je relis régulièrement, On y suit la vie de Charles, né finà Montréal, On y suit la politique du pays au travers des yeux d'un petit garçon, un livre que j'aime beaucoup, qui donne à rêver et à revivre son enfance.
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One of mystar books, Read it a second time in order to proceed to bookin the series, Beautiful language, excellentd characters that get you emotionally involved and the setting is paliable and so real, Dipped into the politics of the time, Highly recommend. The first in a planned trilogy, this book takes us from the birth of Charles to his entry to high school, Details are abundant, and the style has been compared, fairly, to that of Dickens, I found it slow in spots, but the characters stayed interesting, Charles loses his baby sister, followed by his mother, and his father is less interested in him than alcohol, Charles has an affinity for dogs and they play large roles in his life, He is a goodnatured hardworking boy with a quick smile and a tendency to fairness, Various people in his community take an interest in him and participate in his development, I'm already looking forward to the next book, 'A lot of serious praying on his behalf had gone on by the time Charles finally poked his glistening head from between the thighs of his mother, "
From the beginning of Quebec writer Yves Beauchemin's new novel, you know you're in good hands,
Originally published in Quebec in, Charles the Bold is the tale of charismatic Charles Thibodeau, and his adventures growing up in Montreal,
Beauchemin's many previous novels have garnered him awards, such as the Prix FranceQuébec and the Prix Jean Giono, and comparisons to Dickens,
It's wellearned in Charles the Bold, The wealth of secondary characters and perennially bleak life Charles struggles with evoke Great Expectations albeit with the smell of the Macdonald's tobacco plant and a dash of poutine.
Charles is bereft of his mother at three and his shiftless father, Wilfrid, picks up a local waitress without missing a beat, It's the beginning of a long slide of neglect and eventually abuse as Wilfrid discovers he's not cut out to raise a boy,
Charles, on the other hand, wins over children, adults and stray dogs with ease, getting away with nearly everything except pleasing his father,
The disintegration of his family plays out against the background of Quebec life in thes and 's the funeral of Charles's mother is disrupted by Canadian soldiers during the October Crisis.
Charles is not without allies, even when his father visits cruel and arbitrary punishments on him, His loyal dog Boff, his roughandready friend Henri, and the eccentric notary public Parfait Michaud take his side,
His foes include local pederast Monsieur SaintAmour the pompous and vindictive Brother Beaucage and schoolyard bully Fats Dubé,
Beauchemin lets the reader into the heads of his memorable characters long enough to add other perspectives, without distracting from the main plot,
His humour shows in his descriptions, such as that of Gradeteacher Madame Cotruche: "she was married, the mother of three children and had the maternal instincts of a telephone pole.
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Charles himself has to grow up more quickly than his friends, His father quickly becomes a threat to his and his dog's wellbeing, so he runs away, steals, and plots an independent life at,
Even when delivered from his damaged home, he carries the damage with him mistrustful, ashamed and angry, His wellmeaning friends can't help Charles with what is eating away at him,
Still, as Dickens managed to find humour and small victories in the povertyridden streets of London, Beauchemin finds them in a Quebec plagued by uncertainty and some truly vicious grownups.
Charles concocts various schemes for "revenge" that sometimes backfire, but always blow up in grand style,
The sequel to Charles the Bold was published in Quebec last year, If it lives up to the promise of the first volume, Beauchemin should secure his place as one of Canada's best storytellers,
David Jón Fuller is managing editor of LögbergHeimskringla, the Icelandic community newspaper,
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition October,
sitelink winnipegfreepress. com/hist Didnt finish after reading/A round of applause to the translator, and my admiration to the author, I shall try to read his work in French, just for practice, Great storyteller! Possibly the greatest novel published in Canada inthe first in a historic series,
Its as if Dickens or Balzac or Rohinton Mistry had decided to write the book that summed up life in eastend Montreal, This is the first volume of a quartet that has taken Quebec by storm, selling over fortyfive thousand copies,
On the very first page, we
meet Charles Thibodeau being born, Itsand the rest of Montreal is more excited by the fact that a new subway system is opening, but his birth is a big event for Charless parents and for their workingclass neighbours.
Sadly, Charless mother dies when he is four, her funeral interrupted by War Measures Act soldiers on the streets, Soon young Charles, like a younger Huck Finn, is fending for himself, While he adopts a stray dog, Boff, in turn he is taken away from his drunken, violent father and becomes part of the Fafard family nearby,
His adventures follow thick and fast at school, where he avoids becoming a teachers pet, despite being smart, in a parttime job where he encounters a pederast, and at summer camp, where he establishes himself as a rebel.
By the end of the book, he has fully earned his title, Charles the Bold, leaving us eager to follow his further adventures,
But the real hero of this book is Montreal, and its scores of memorable, lively characters who leap off the page, Like Gabrielle Roy in The Tin Flute, Yves Beauchemin has given us an unforgettable portrait of life in the francophone east end with more to come in this ambitious and richly rewarding saga.
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