Gabrielle Roy

NOW A PENGUIN MODERN CLASSIC: An affecting story of familial tenderness, sacrifice, and survival, The Tin Flute is imbued with Roy's unique brand of compassion and compelling understanding. The first among her repertoire of award-winning novels, The Tin Flute is Gabrielle Roy's sympathetic novel about a family's struggle to survive the Montreal slums of Saint-Henri, overcome poverty, and find love--all amidst the mounting tensions of the Second World War.

Penguin Modern Classics Edition

The Tin Flute

In een arbeiderswijk van Montréal proberen de bewoners tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog wanhopig een beter leven op te bouwen.

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Bonheur d'occasion

Alan Brown

"The Tin Flute," Gabrielle Roy's first novel, is a classic of Canadian fiction. Imbued with Roy's unique brand of compassion and compelling understanding, this moving story focuses on a family in the Saint-Henri slums of Montreal, its struggles to overcome poverty and ignorance, and its search for love. An affecting story of familial tenderness, sacrifice, and survival during the Second World War, "The Tin Flute" won both the Governor General's Award and the Prix Femina of France. The novel was made into a critically acclaimed motion picture in 1983.

Bonheur D'occasion. English

Deux premiers volets de l'autobiographie inachevée que G. Roy écrivit entre 1976 et 1983. Les années de formation de l'auteure, de l'enfance franco-manitobaine au retour d'Europe à la veille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale (1939). Un régal. Chronologie et éléments de bibliographie. L'édition, pas plus que les précédentes (1984, 1988), n'est préfacée. Avertissement de l'éditeur, p. 7-8.

autobiographie

La détresse et l'enchantement

In The Road Past Altamont, Roy daringly returns to the same characters and the nearly identical timespan of Street of Riches, but by looking at her subjects with an entirely fresh vision, she creates a wholly new and deeply personal story of young Christine’s decision to become a writer. This haunting and poignant tale weaves a delicate but substantial network of impressions, emotions, and human relationships.

The Road Past Altamont

Dans ces six récits de la vie d'une institutrice manitobaine, l'auteure a, d'une écriture limpide, fait passer les "frémissements d'une jeunesse radieuse" (G. Poulin). Trois pages de chronologie et des éléments de bibliographie critique.

Ces enfants de ma vie

Rećit d'une simplicite ́exemplaire, ećrit il y a une vingtaine d'anneés, mais reste ́ined́it. L'oeuvre appartient au "cycle" de Rue Deschambault (1955), et de La route d'Altamont (1966). A 73 ans, Eveline reco̧it un teĺeǵramme de son frer̀e parti jeune pour la Californie. Elle dećide de faire le voyage en autobus. Et c'est ce long peŕiple, au cours duquel l'heŕoin̈e retrouve ses souvenirs, pour le beńef́ice des autres voyageurs charmeś, que nous raconte Gabrielle Roy. [SDM].

récits

De quoi t'ennuies-tu, Éveline? ; suivi de Ély! Ély! Ély!

Children of My Heart. Translated by Alan Brown

François Ricard

Dominique Fortier

Jane Everett

Quatre premiers chapitres (les années 1939-1943), de la troisième partie d'une autobiographie qui devait en comporter quatre et dont les deux premières ont été publiées en 1984 à titre posthume. L'oeuvre s'articule à partir d'un voyage en train de Montréal au Manitoba où la mère de G. Roy vient de mourir (en juin 1943). C'est l'occasion pour l'auteure de réévaluer son travail de journaliste et d'écrivaine, etc. Notes et variantes, p. 97-102. Comme le soulignent les éditeurs, malgré son inachèvement relatif (trois versions ont été retrouvées), cet "écrit ultime" allie la "beauté" à la "plénitude" (cf. p. 7-10). [SDM].

suite inédite de La détresse et l'enchantement

Le temps qui m'a manqué

Illustrated by Jean-Yves Ahern. Translated by Patricia Claxton.

The Tortoiseshell and the Pekinese

A SERIES OF REMINISCENCES THAT PAINT A COLOURFUL PICTURE OF RURAL QUEBEC. THE MOODS, RHYTHMS, AND SIMPLICITY OF LIFE ARE SENSITIVELY DESCRIBED. ORIGINAL TITLE: "CET ETE QUI CHANTAIT ... "

Enchanted Summer

Few writers portray the dignity of people trapped by poverty or emotional isolation as compassionately as Gabrielle Roy does in the four stories of western Canada that comprise Garden in the Wind. The effortless craft and poetic sensitivity evident in all her writing are here in full abundance as she recounts the stories of a tramp who belongs to no one, a Chinese immigrant struggling to fulfill his dream, Doukhobor settlers fired by a vision of a new land, and a lonely woman who nurtures her small but splendid garden. Imbued with a poignant simplicity, these are stories of sheer artistry. From the Paperback edition.

Garden in the Wind

Articles and Memories, 1942-1970

The Fragile Lights of Earth

THE ODYSSEY OF A VISIONARY YOUNG ARTIST IN QUEST OF ARTISTIC PERFECTION TAKES HIM ACROSS CANADA'S NORTHLAND, AND TO PARIS. EXCELLENT DESCRIPTION OF THE BEAUTY OF UNSPOILED NATURE AND HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS.

La Montagne Secrète. English

When her father buys a cow, a little girl must take care of it. She begins to respect the cow when she realizes that she can sell its milk. Grades K-3.

My Cow Bossie

The eighteen stories in Gabrielle Roy's "Street of Riches" centre upon the bittersweet experiences of a young girl growing up in the francophone community of St. Boniface, Manitoba. In the persona of her narrator Christine, Roy transfigures the incidents and characters of her own childhood, reflecting with gentle irony upon her youthful awakening to the beauty and the sorrow of life. Acclaimed upon its original publication in French in 1955, this superb collection infuses the authenticity of memoir with the timeliness and universality of the best imaginative art. "Street of Riches" won the Governor General's Award for 1957.

Street of Riches

First published in French in 1966, The Road Past Altamont pierces to the heart of a child's world, craeting a delicate, yet substantial network of impressions, emotions, and relationships. In her writing, Gabrielle Roy allowed "nothing extraneous or false to stand," according to the translator, Joyce Marshall. The literary style of Roy, whose fiction reflects her childhood on the Canadian prairie, has often been compared to that of Willa Cather. The Road Past Altamont takes a sensitive French-Canadian girl, Christine, from childhood innocence to maturity. Four connected stories reveal profound moments during her early years in the vastness of Manitoba. Christine's testament to Grandmother's creative power, her great adventure with an old gentleman at Lake Winnipeg and her clandestine one with a crude family of movers, her journey through time and space with aging Maman - all these characters and events convey Gabrielle Roy's preoccupation with childhood and old age, the passage of time and mystery of change, and the artist's relation to the world.

Charlotte Roy

Issy, Nate, Shay and Gabriela find an old factory behind their school. But when Gabriela gets captured by Spidey, the evil lady who lives there, the others must form a team to save her. Will they prevail? Or will they be caught and tortured like everyone else?

Gabrielle Roy

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