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French Canadian fiction, Canadian fiction
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Marie-Maude Pranesh-Lopez est aux prises avec un trou blanc qui la pousse à toujours fuir vers l'avant, à tout essayer,…
ce qui se solde invariablement par une profonde indifférence. Sa mère provoque volontairement des accidents de la route, qui causent des embouteillages. Son père, fervent consommateur de psycho-pop, se livre à la méditation chromatique et adhère à tout ce qui peut favoriser sa croissance personnelle. Dans un récit déconstruit, entrecoupé de pages du journal intime de Marie-Maude, l'auteur explore le thème de la fatalité, en mettant en scène des personnages pour lesquels la rédemption n'arrive pas
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), General fiction
Human-narrated audio
« À la fin de ce récit, je vais me tuer. Et puis mourir. C'est ainsi. Toute bonne chose a…
une fin, mais moi aussi. » Après les retentissants succès de La Bête à sa mère et La Bête et sa cage, David Goudreault conclut sa trilogie avec Abattre la bête ; des explosions d'amour et de violence pour une finale apocalyptique digne de ce nom. 2017.
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General fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)
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"Now I've killed another person. I'm a serial killer. Sure, two people is hardly serial, but it's a good start.…
I'm still young. Who knows where opportunities might lead me? Opportunity makes the thief, or the murderer, or even the pastry chef. It's well documented". This is the second book in David Goudreault's Mama's Boy trilogy. Once again written with gritty humour in the form of a confession, 'Mama's Boy Behind Bars' picks up where the first book left off. Mama's Boy finds himself in jail following a tender and violent search for his long lost mother. In an attempt to survive his incarceration, he sets out to make a name for himself in prison and is desperate to achieve his ambition of joining the ranks of the hardcore criminals. But things get wildly complicated when he falls in love with a prison guard. Can Mama's Boy juggle love and crime? Sequel to "Mama's boy". 2019.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), General fiction
Human-narrated audio
" J'ai encore tué quelqu'un. Je suis un tueur en série. D'accord, deux cadavres, c'est une petite série, mais c'est…
une série quand même. Et je suis jeune. Qui sait jusqu'où les opportunités me mèneront ? L'occasion fait le larron, le meurtrier ou la pâtissière. C'est documenté. " La prison brise les hommes, mais la cage excite les bêtes. 2016.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Family stories
Human-narrated audio
Ma mère se suicidait souvent. Elle a commencé toute jeune, en amatrice. Très vite, maman a su obtenir la reconnaissance…
des psychiatres et les égards réservés aux grands malades. Pendant que je collectionnais des cartes de hockey, elle accumulait les diagnostics. Le drame familial d'un homme seul. Et des chats qui croisent sa route. 2015.
Electronic braille (Uncontracted), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip), Braille (Uncontracted)
Poetry, Canadian non-fiction
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Vif oubli est un bilan des pertes dans un monde qui persiste à détruire ce qui reste d'humanité. Scènes du…
quotidien, portraits d'hommes et de femmes abîmé.es par la vie se fracassent les uns les autres, ouvrant la mémoire du deuil autant que la saison de 'espoir. Les passifs s'accumulent : peur, harcèlement, violence, colère, drogue, détresse. Demeure le poème, dit Goudreault, regard acharné, prêt à trouver de la beauté partout : célébrer ce qui sauve
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Mysteries and crime stories
Human-narrated audio
« Quand même pas tous les jours qu'une péripatéticienne bien mûre arrive à résoudre un paquet de crimes, à doubler…
la police et à neutraliser un tueur en série du même élan. Ça vaut la peine d'être raconté. Attachez vos tuques avec de la broche à dents, ça va fesser fort. »
Electronic braille (Uncontracted), Braille (Uncontracted)
Canadian non-fiction, Journals and memoirs
Human-transcribed braille
Véritable phénomène télévisuel, les lettres de David Goudreault à Bonsoir bonsoir ! ont été vues des millions de fois. Durant…
trois saisons, l'écrivain a mêlé humour et poésie dans de solides performances scéniques. Ce recueil rassemble ses quinze textes, accompagnés de ses commentaires et de portraits esquissés par Irina Pusztai. Une incursion privilégiée dans l'univers de David Goudreault, un passage de la scène à l'intime.
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Literature, Canadian non-fiction, Journals and memoirs
Human-narrated audio
Véritable phénomène télévisuel, les lettres de David Goudreault à Bonsoir bonsoir ! ont été vues des millions de fois. Durant…
trois saisons, l'écrivain a mêlé humour et poésie dans de solides performances scéniques. Ce recueil rassemble ses quinze textes, accompagnés de ses commentaires et de portraits esquissés par Irina Pusztai. Une incursion privilégiée dans l'univers de David Goudreault, un passage de la scène à l'intime
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Serious and literary fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Now I've killed another person. I'm a serial killer. Sure, two people is hardly serial, but it's a good start.…
I'm still young. Who knows where opportunities might lead me? Opportunity makes the thief, or the murderer, or even the pastry chef. It's well documented.Mama's Boy Behind Bars is the second book in David Goudreault's wildly successful and darkly funny Mama's Boy trilogy. Once again written with gritty humour in the form of a confession, Mama's Boy Behind Bars, picks up where the first book in the series left off.Mama's Boy finds himself in jail following a tender and violent search for his long-lost mother. In an attempt to survive his incarceration, he sets out to make a name for himself in the prison and is desperate to achieve his ambition of joining the ranks of the hardcore criminals. But things get wildly complicated when he falls in love with a prison guard. Can Mama's Boy juggle love and crime?Praise for Mama's Boy:"Despite the narrator's repellent behavior, readers will be drawn in by his quick wit, sharp observations, and childlike longing for his mother?s love." —Publishers Weekly"There is a slyness at work here that Goudreault handles marvellously." —Canadian Notes and Queries
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Suspense and thrillers
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
At the end of this story I'm going to kill myself. And then die. That's the way it is. All…
good things must come to an end, including me.Mama's Boy Game Over is the third and final book in David Goudreault's bleakly comic bestselling Mama's Boy trilogy. Mama's Boy has been transferred from prison to a psychiatric hospital. He manages to escape, and goes on the run in Montreal, hiding in plain sight.In his short but eventful life, Mama's Boy has already managed to achieve most of his ambitions: fame, fatherhood and friendship, at least in his own rather skewed perspective. But one goal remains: tracking down and reuniting with his estranged mother. By turns poignant and deeply uncomfortable, Mama's Boy's final journey is a wild, desperate bid for freedom, love, and family.Praise for Mama's Boy:"David Goudreault will captivate you from the first line!" —Kim Thuy, author of Vi and Ru
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Mysteries and crime stories, Family stories, Suspense and thrillers
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
At the end of this story I'm going to kill myself. And then die. That's the way it is. All…
good things must come to an end, including me. Mama's Boy Game Over is the third and final book in David Goudreault's bleakly comic bestselling Mama's Boy trilogy. Mama's Boy has been transferred from prison to a psychiatric hospital. He manages to escape, and goes on the run in Montreal, hiding in plain sight. In his short but eventful life, Mama's Boy has already managed to achieve most of his ambitions: fame, fatherhood and friendship, at least in his own rather skewed perspective. But one goal remains: tracking down and reuniting with his estranged mother. By turns poignant and deeply uncomfortable, Mama's Boy's final journey is a wild, desperate bid for freedom, love, and family. In its brevity and persistence, This Radiant Life is a material call for action: it asks us to let go, even just a little bit, of our individuality in favour of mutuality, to arrive separately yet in unison at a radiance in which all living beings can thrive.
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General fiction, Family stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Now I've killed another person. I'm a serial killer. Sure, two people is hardly serial, but it's a good start.…
I'm still young. Who knows where opportunities might lead me? Opportunity makes the thief, or the murderer, or even the pastry chef. It's well documented.Mama's Boy Behind Bars is the second book in David Goudreault's wildly successful and darkly funny Mama's Boy trilogy. Once again written with gritty humour in the form of a confession, Mama's Boy Behind Bars picks up where the first book in the series left off.Mama's Boy finds himself in jail following a tender and violent search for his long lost mother. In an attempt to survive his incarceration, he sets out to make a name for himself in prison and is desperate to achieve his ambition of joining the ranks of the hardcore criminals. But things get wildly complicated when he falls in love with a prison guard. Can Mama's Boy juggle love and crime?
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
General fiction, Family stories, Serious and literary fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Winner of the 2016 Grand Prix littéraire ArchambaultWritten with gritty humour in the form of a confession, Mama's Boy recounts…
the family drama of a young man who sets out in search of his mother after a childhood spent shuffling from one foster home to another. A bizarre character with a skewed view of the world, he leads the reader on a quest that is both tender and violent.A runaway bestseller among French readers, Mama's Boy is the first book in a trilogy that took Quebec by storm, winning the 2016 Grand Prix littéraire Archambault, and selling more than twenty thousand copies. Now, thanks to translator JC Sutcliffe, English readers will have the opportunity to absorb this darkly funny and disturbing novel from one of Quebec's shining literary stars.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
General fiction, Family stories, Serious and literary fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Winner of the 2016 Grand Prix littéraire ArchambaultWritten with gritty humour in the form of a confession, Mama's Boy recounts…
the family drama of a young man who sets out in search of his mother after a childhood spent shuffling from one foster home to another. A bizarre character with a skewed view of the world, he leads the reader on a quest that is both tender and violent.A runaway bestseller among French readers, Mama's Boy is the first book in a trilogy that took Quebec by storm, winning the 2016 Grand Prix littéraire Archambault, and selling more than twenty thousand copies. Now, thanks to translator JC Sutcliffe, English readers will have the opportunity to absorb this darkly funny and disturbing novel from one of Quebec's shining literary stars.