Stéfanie Clermont

The Game of Music

Le jeu de la musique

February 7, 2019
Novel
344 pages
130 × 210 mm
20 €
9782896983353
978-2-8969-8335-3

Collection « Polygraphe »

Stéfanie Clermont, The Game of Music
Stéfanie Clermont, The Game of Music

A great feminist work, about friendship and love, suicide and grief, depression and violence against women, from childhood in francophone Ontario to the punk squats of California to the Montreal of the 2010’s as experienced by a group of militant and marginalized friends.

A boy committed suicide in a vacant lot in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve where he often spent the day lying in the sun and the night making fires. He woke up one morning in August and hung himself from a tree. Friends survive him. They carry his memory and continue to live, to struggle, to love, confronting the loves of the present with those of the past. They recount mistakes, lost friends, fears, the few victories and explosions of revolt.

The author

Stéfanie Clermont was born in Ottawa in 1988. In 2017, she published The Game of Music in Le Quartanier, winner of the 2018 Ringuet Award, the 2018 Adrienne-Choquette Award and the 2017 Œuvre de la relève à Montréal Award from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. She lives in Montreal.

Infos

The Franco-Ontarian literary revelation: Prix Ringuet de l’Académie des lettres du Québec 2018, Prix Adrienne-Choquette 2018, Prix Œuvre de la relève à Montréal 2017 from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec; finalist for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal 2017 and the Prix des libraires du Québec 2018.

February 7, 2019
Novel
344 pages
130 × 210 mm
20 €
9782896983353
978-2-8969-8335-3

Collection « Polygraphe »