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The
poetic voice of an exceptional storyteller... Author Marguerite Primeau
is a remarkable voice in Canadian fiction. Raised in a French community
in Northern Alberta, Primeau writes only in French, although she has lived
in Vancouver for many years. Her intense narrative of personal relationships
reflects the stark landscape of the prairies and the lush Pacific Coast.
The Totem is her first collection of short stories to be translated
and published in English. Drawn from imagination and the past, the six
tales in The Totem demonstrate Primeaus mastery of the story-tellers
craft. Her writing is poetic and dream-like with surprisingly precise
characterization and gift for interior dialogue, bestowing the ordinary
with a startling intensity. Her powerful writing came to the attention
of English language readers with the translation and publication of her
Prix Champlain award-winning novel Savage Rose (Ekstasis, 1999).
Marguerite Primeau
was born in St.. Paul, Alberta and educated in Edmonton. She has lived
for many years in Vancouver, BC where she is Professor Emeritus of French
at the University of British Columbia. |
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