High-Wire Summer
by Louise Dupré
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"A newly single woman steps out into a blizzard. A young mother struggles to mourn the loss of her father. A businesswoman tests her boundaries at a nude beach. In a country inn, a writer confronts her late brother's lover." "This is High-Wire Summer: twenty-six short stories about women from all walks of life, burdened with fear and doubt, struggling with the past, present, or future, who are given a chance to take control of their destinies. Dark but sunny, troubled but hopeful, this show more collection is a tightrope walk to a realm of endless possibilities."--BOOK JACKET. show lessTags
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Louise Dupre is the author of numerous books and was twice nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry. Her novel La memoria (translated into English as Memoria, Dundurn, 1999) won two major literary awards. La Voie lactee (The Milky Way), her most recent book, was nominated for the 2001 Prix France-Quebec. Louise Dupre teaches show more literature and creative writing at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal show less
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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- 843.914 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French fiction 1900- 20th Century 1945-1999
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- PQ3919.2 .D849 .E74 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Provincial, local, colonial, etc.
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