The Alien House
La maison étrangère
Élise Turcotte (born 1957)
Translated by Sheila Fischman
English editions
In EnglishThe Alien House
Cormorant Books · Canada · 2004 · 243 pages
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Élisabeth is a medievalist, absorbed in the texts, images and symbols of an age in which everything corresponded to everything else, and cut off from her own present: she hopes that by deciphering the past she will understand today's world and at last feel she belongs to it. After a breakup she begins a quest that becomes a feverish poetics of the body, shedding the masks made from other people's gaze. Her lover Jim, a wildlife photographer, and the animals in his pictures help her ask whether love can give her a better knowledge of herself.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 221 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2002 by Leméac
- Author's age
- 45 when first published
- ISBN
9782760932487 (original)
9781896951751 (Cormorant Books, Canada)
- More
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