Thérèse and Pierrette and the Little Hanging Angel

by Michel Tremblay

Plateau Mont-Royal Chronicles (2)

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This is the second of five novels in Michel Tremblay's Plateau Mont-Royal series, an evocative, magical retelling of the author's own birth, childhood, and adolescence in a working-class Montreal neighbourhood populated by eccentrics, dreamers and imaginary characters of mythic proportions. Three schoolgirls, "Thérèse 'n' Pierrette" and their friend Simone, are caught up in the dark mysteries of their rites of passage: innocence moving into experience; life into birth. Circling around show more their uncertainties are cold, merciless predators, ready to strike at the slightest sign of weakness--the vicious hypocrisy of the Church, the cruel ignorance of the petty bourgeoisie, and the burning lust of the child molester. show less

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La vie au quotidien de trois filles de 11 ans, leurs amis et familles et celle des religieuses qui les enseignent: amitié, hostilité, réveil à la sexualité... Tout comme dans le premier tome des Chroniques du Plateau Mont-Royal les différents fils de l'intrigue ne sont pas très concis: ce qui fait le charme de ses livres, c'est l'atmosphère du quartier, le regard tendre que l'auteur porte sur ses personnages et les dialogues vivaces.

Cette série à vite gagné mon coeur et je vais sûrement continuer!

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Canonical title
Thérèse and Pierrette and the Little Hanging Angel
Original title
Thérèse et Pierrette à l'école des Saints-Anges
Important places
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Epigraph
"Imagining something is better than remembering something."
John Irving, The World According to Garp
Dedication
À Camille, à John, parce que je les aime.

À Denise Filiatrault, Michelle Rossignol et Amulette Garneau que j'ai essayé de m'imaginer enfants pour les personnages de Thérèse, Pierrette et Simone.
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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
843Literature & rhetoricFrench LiteratureFrench fiction
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PQ3919.2 .T73 .T513Language and LiteratureFrench, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literaturesFrench literatureProvincial, local, colonial, etc.
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