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Title Statement | Morel / Maxime Raymond Bock ; translated by Melissa Bull. |
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Author | Bock, Raymond, 1981- |
Additional Contributors | Bull, Melissa,1977- |
Publication | Montréal: QC Fiction, an imprint of Baraka Books,[2024]©2024 |
Extent of Item | 307 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781771863377 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr07332916 |
Languages | English translated from French. |
Summary | Born during the Great Depression, Jean-Claude Morel is an Everyman, an ordinary Montreal construction worker who has built the city with his own hands, digging its metro, creating islands, and weaving expressways through the downtown core. But the progress has come at a cost: neighborhoods have been razed, streets wiped off the map, and the Morel family expropriated. Teeming with life, Morel uncovers a story of Montreal that has been buried under years of glitzy urban renewal and modernization. This intricately constructed literary novel is a profoundly human portrait of one man and his time, a monument to a city, and a toast to days gone by. |
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By Topic | Construction workers--Fiction |
Urban renewal--Fiction | |
By Location | Montréal (Québec)--Fiction |
By Genre | Psychological fiction |
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