Best Selling Books by Michel Tremblay

New translation of Tremblay''s moving portrait of an extraordinary "ordinary" woman in this Chalmers Award-winning play. Cast of 6 women.

Young playwright draws on family as the raw material for his first work. Cast of 4 women and 3 men.

Middle aged couple (a drag queen and a biker) bicker, but are in love.

This classic play has been translated before, but only into a pallid approximation of the original joual. Scots, however, is an energetic and earthy vernacular with a distinctive sound system equal to joual. The play, a landmark in Canadian theatre, can now be truly appreciated in this superb translation, just as audiences in Glasgow and Moscow have learned to laugh with these ladies.

A Crossing of Hearts continues the Desrosiers Diaspora novel series, a family saga set in Montreal during World War I.

This fourth novel in the Chronicles of the Plateau Mont-Royal follows Édouard, the fat woman''s brother-in-law, as he explores Paris.

Cultural awakening and a country-and-western singer from Montreal''s The Main." Cast of 4 women, 13 men and a chorus.

Michel Tremblay is one of Canada''s most prominent writer''s . This novel provides the backstory to his most famous chararacters.

A novel of wandering and the quest for a better life elsewhere.

An account of Michel Tremblay''s discovery of theatre, from his first recognition of the imagination to his first drama-competition win.

In this third instalment of Tremblay''s Notebook trilogy, Céline records into a notebook details of her tempestuous relationship with Gilbert.

With humour and poignancy, Tremblay offers glimpses of himself and his mother at five different stages of their lives together.

As an innovative chronicler of the "little people" of Quebec, Michel Tremblay has no peer. Yet few Anglophone readers realize that Tremblay began as a writer of works of fantasy. Now, however, Michael Bullock, who won the Canada Council translation award for his translation of Tremblay''s first collection of stories - Contes pour buveurs attardés (Stories for Late Night Drinkers) - has worked his magic upon Tremblay''s first novel, La Cité dans l''oeuf (1969).

(This third volume in the Chronicles of the Plateau Mont-Royal--an epic series of novels which imagines the lives of the characters of Tremblay''s plays--deals with an explicitly gay thematic: Tremblay''s metaphor for the Québécois desire for a more glamorous identity on the world stage.) This is the third volume in Michel Tremblay''s six-volume Chronicles of the Plateau Mont Royal, an epic series of novels which imagines, in prose, the lives of the characters of Tremblay''s plays, in which each of them acts out their own personal drama: their loves, their disappointments, their travails, their agony and their ecstasy. It is in the novels, however, that these characters are seen in their context of time and space: the neighbourhood in which Tremblay and his extended family lived and grew up. The Duchess and the Commoner focuses on Albertine''s brother, Édouard, brother-in-law to ''the fat woman'' and uncle to Marcel, and to the ''fat woman''s'' son. In ths volume, Édouard launches his forays into the 1940''s world of Montréal show-business and creates his own astonishing role within it. As with all the novels in this series, a certain sense of wonder, even magic, emanates from the grandmother, Victoire, which in this episode is seen flowing through Édouard to his nephew, the brilliant and disturbed Marcel.

An evocative account of romantic adventure stamped with Tremblay''s signature wit and ironic humour.

Autobiographical pieces about how movies shaped the life of young Michel Tremblay.

Two ex-lovers meet and compare and confess their fears and disillusionments. Cast of 2 men.

It''s May 1922, wedding preparations are in full swing, and old memories, past desires, and big regrets threaten to turn the big celebration into a big melee.

Tremblay''s penetrating analysis of a Quebec family unit. Cast of 3 women and 1 man.

Three sisters have an impromptu" and re-examine their personal and social problems. Cast of 4 women.

Michel Tremblay''s fourth book of autobiographical narratives inspired by his childhood and youth.

A fusty academic has fallen in love with a young actor working as a salesman while waiting for his big break; however, the academic must learn to make room in his life for the actor''s 4-year-old son.

In Albertine in Five Times, Michel Tremblay portrayed one of his most unforgettable characters during five decades of her life, beginning in her thirties. Now, in Past Perfect, we meet Albertine at twenty and discover the dark secret of her being. Still reeling from the heartbreak that plunged her into a nervous breakdown, Albertine sets out to re-conquer the beau she has lost to her younger sister. On this fated Thursday evening, will she find the strength to survive the crisis that grips her very essence in this dark night of her soul? Or will she spend the rest of her days foundering in an endless rage that could extinguish all hope of love ever lighting up her life? In the eyes of her mother, Victoire, her brother, Édouard, and her sister, Madeleine, Albertine is a soul on fire that devours everything she touches. But in her own eyes, Albertine is sensitive, selfless, and devoted to the objects of her desires. In this extremity of contradiction between the way we see ourselves and the way others see us, Tremblay stages the agony of the imagination in chains, the tragedy of an understanding of the imagination as a way to the "truth," rather than as a path to understanding. Caught in this dilemma, Albertine, who has cast herself as a sacrificial lamb, a victim of destiny, the queen of unhappiness, descends into a hell of lucidity as she confronts Alex, the great hope and passion of her youth. Cast of three women and two men.

A remembrance of childhood in Montreal''s Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood, recrafted for the stage. Cast of 3 women and 4 men.

A beloved brother returns to his family. Cast of 6 women and 2 men.

The life of a working-class family on The Main in East End Montreal. Cast of 4 women and 2 men.

Three plays from the renowned Quebecois writer. The Guid Sisters is a Scots version of Michel Tremblay''s Les Belles Soeurs (Montreal, 1968), by Bill Findlay & Martin Bowman. Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps. She invites her female friends and relations to a party to paste the stamps into the books. The temptation to pilfer the stamps is irresistible and an enormous fight breaks out. Manon/Sandra is a controversial but humane duet crosscutting between the lives of Manon, an obsessively religious girl, and ''Sandra'', a sex-obsessed transvestite. Albertine in Five Times is a one-act portrait of a woman at five different ages.

Fifth in a series of six novels juxtaposes the childhood experiences of the fat woman''s son and his gifted cousin.

This atlas presents 233 virus diagrams selected for their scientific content, clarity, originality, and historic, didactic, and aesthetic value. Virus Life in Diagrams assembles the many diagrams of viral life cycles, particle assembly, and strategies of nucleic acid replication that are scattered throughout the literature. The diagrams cover vertebrate, invertebrate, plant, bacterial, fungal, and protozoal viruses, viroids, and prions. They offer a dynamic illustration of the time course of viral life cycles not available in photographs. They also offer speculative elements that project the possible results of future research, as well as historical documentation that shows the development of virology. This valuable reference book for virologists, microbiologists, molecular biologists, geneticists, and students in these areas is the first atlas to compile illustrations of viral morphogenesis in one complete source.

New translation of Tremblay''s seminal 1970 play, where one family battles its awful past while facing a haunted present.

Viral Pathogenesis in Diagrams is the first book of its kind to illustrate viral pathogenesis on a comparative basis. The text covers the pathogenesis of viral diseases, including vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, and protists. The diagrams summarize and integrate large numbers of observations, from electron microscopy to clinical data, into a single picture or a few related drawings. Organized alphabetically by virus family or groups, this book covers the complete domain of virology. Transcending photographs and experimental data, the diagrams are ideally suited to illustrate the pathogenesis of viral diseases, from infection to host defenses and cell death. Included are two chapters describing general pathogenesis in vertebrate virus infections and illustrating the spread of viruses through the body, as well as cytopathology and host defenses. One chapter illustrates the pathogenic behavior of 19 vertebrate virus families, especially herpesviruses and retroviruses. The 268 diagrams in Viral Pathogenesis in Diagrams were selected from over 800 diagrams of English and French virological literature, including one derived from a famous drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. This up-to-date reference will promote understanding and future research.

A love-play from the author of The Guid Sisters.

The stormy relationship between Claude and his father Alex displays cruel irony on an Alzheimer''s ward. Cast of 2 men.

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