Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon

by Nicole Brossard, Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood (Translator)

Overview

Carla Carlson is at the Hotel Clarendon in Quebec City trying to finish a novel. Nearby, a woman, preoccupied with sadness and infatuated with her boss, catalogues antiquities at the Museum of Civilization. Every night, the two women meet at the hotel bar and talk – about childhood and parents and landscapes, about time and art, about Descartes and Francis Bacon and writing.

When Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon appeared in French (as Hier), the media called it the pinnacle of Brossard’s remarkable forty-year literary career. From its intersection of four women emerges a kind of art installation, a lively read in which life and death and the vertigo of ruins tangle themselves together to say something about history and desire and art.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781552451502
Publisher:	Coach House Books
Publication date:	03/19/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Montreal-born Nicole Brossard published her first book in 1965. Since then, she has published eight novels and many books of poetry. She is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry.