Volkswagen Blues
by Jacques Poulin
translated by Sheila Fischman
ISBN 9781896951423 | 5.5" x 8.5" | TPB with French Flaps | $19.95
Categories:Fiction - Literary, Translations
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Synopsis
A 2005 Canada Reads SelectionIn this classic road novel, Jacques Poulin tells the story of a man in search of his brother. The geographical journey — through Detroit, into Chicago, on to St. Louis, along the Oregon Trail and into California — becomes a metaphor for the exploration of the history of the French in North America.
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"Jacques Poulin is one of the finest and most underrated novelists in Quebec. Volkswagen Blues confirms his calibre as a writer, and may give him the reputation he deserves." — The Globe & Mail
"Shares a mix of detached humour, fantasy and compassion with Vonnegut and Salinger." — Saskatoon Star-Phoenix
"A wonderfully lively and entertaining trip ... this book is full of incidental pleasures, odd characters, bizarre incidents, moments of poetry — some of them very comic — that spring as much from the author's own generosity of spirit as from the richness of things. This is a splendid book." — The Toronto Star
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