"Edson’s vivid portrayal of the urban area, as well as the working class and underclass, creates a vision of Saint John that highlights the discrepancy between the pre-modern idyllic notion of life in Atlantic Canada and the more complicated reality of the region."


-The New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia

Thursday, October 9, 2014

France's Patrick Modiano wins Nobel Prize for Literature


"His novels tend to be short, often 130 to 150 pages in length, and written in simple language...but they are refined and elegant in nature."
-CNN


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