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12 hommes, 12 livres

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21.01.2012

J’ai demandé à 12 hommes de me recommander des livres importants pour eux. Mon but final est de réévaluer mon rapport avec eux et avec les hommes en général. Un soir de janvier, je rencontre Youssef, ami, photographe, penseur, voyageur, pour parler du dernier livre de Dany Laferrière, que l’auteur qualifie d’autobiographie de ses pensées. On parle.

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Set in Alberta — Feels Like Kansas

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Sundre, Christopher Willard, Véhicule Press

by Joseph Elfassi
02.08.2009

Christopher Willard, the author of the much-celebrated Garbage Head, delivers his second novel from Véhicule Press. Sundre reads like a willfully sublime poem; it packs a wallop. Even so, the book’s occasional grandeur seems somehow artificial, manufactured, too self-conscious.

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Mobile 9: Remarkably Ordinary

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Mobile 9, Bill Haugland, Véhicule Press

by Joseph Elfassi
25.07.2009

When an aggressive crime is wrongly pinned on one of their own, TV journalists from CKCF Television decide to undertake their own investigation. They quickly discover the Mafia’s involvement, police corruption, anti-Anglophone sentiment, and odd behavior among their own co-workers.

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