Voice-Over
by Carole Corbeil
Price: $21.00
Publication Date: June 15, 2012
Synopsis:
After experiencing the disintegration of their parents’ marriage, Claudine and Janine Beaulieu’s lives are further complicated when their mother Odette remarries an Anglophone and they are forced to “turn English.”
Now, years later, Claudine has made a career out of documentary filmmaking, focusing on the painful lives of other women; Janine, a wife and mother, questions her feelings for her sister’s boyfriend; and Odette succumbs to her Valium and rum addiction in a luxury retirement villa in Jamaica. Shifting from Duplessis’s Montreal of the fifties to Toronto in the eighties, Voice-Over chronicles the lives of a mother and daughters struggling to find their voice in a bilingual country.
ISBN: 9781770860063
Format: Trade Paperback
Size: 5.5" x 8.5"
Subjects:
FIC019000 FICTION / Literary
Co-winner, 1993 Toronto Book Award
Shortlisted, 1992 Books in Canada First Novel Award
Reviews
“Voice-Over is a wonderful novel and Carole Corbeil is a powerful novelist. Her fiction stands out and should never be forgotten. It is thrilling to see this work reissued.”
— Michael Ondaatje, author of Warlight and The English Patient