Flame Out
Le Feu de mon père
Michael Delisle (born 1959)
Translated by Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo
English editions
In EnglishFlame Out
Guernica Editions · Canada · 1 April 2022 · Paperback · 106 pages
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When the narrator was a child, his "uncles", his father's friends, never said gun but piece, or more metonymically, fire: put your fire in the glove box, don't forget your fire. The poet remembers his father, the bandit turned charismatic Christian, the violent man who spoke only of Jesus, the hated man one cannot help loving in spite of everything. At his father's bedside, touching the old merchant-navy tattoo faded to a blur, he recognizes the organic kinship between them, the only bond he will admit, and keeps asking where the fire goes.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 121 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Canada
- First published
- 2014 by Éditions du Boréal
- Author's age
- 55 when first published
- ISBN
9782764622940 (original)
9781771837019 (Guernica Editions, Canada)