Fiction. Gay and Lesbian Studies. Translated from the French by Susanne de Lotbiniere-Harwood. Carla Carlson is at the Hotel Clarendon in Quebec City trying to finish a novel. Nearby, a woman, preoccupied with grief, 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 this book appeared in French (as Hier), the media called it the pinnacle of Nicole Brossard's 40-year literary career. From its intersection of four women emerges a kind of art installation, a lively and beguiling read in which life and death and the vertigo of ruins tangle themselves together.

Author City: Montreal CAN

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.