![]() ![]() ![]() The working class French of 1940 stay of their side of Rue St Laurence in a quietude that is born with a stubborn resignation. Gabrielle Roy is the novelist of a Montréal now gone, the Montréal of Maurice Duplessis, and even the egregious Jean Drapeau, long before Le révolution tranquil. Emanuel’s unwilling love for Florentine and her gradual response, each with inner doubts, provides the unity of the story. Her combination of defensive quips and throbbing hormones is certainly right. Then there was the house party and the young and inexperienced Florentine measures herself against her rivals, parents, and beau. The description of the snow driven before the wind as a dancer pursued by a cracking whip was marvellous, graphic, exciting, and accurate. Yet a book that brims with life, and ends with optimism. A novel of life among destitute Canadiens in Montréal of the Great Depression. ![]()
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