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02877aam a22004218i 4500 001 B02FDA72F2B011E79A81643B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180106010252 008 170217t20172017onc 000 f eng 020 $a 1771662980 020 $a 9781771662987 035 $a (OCoLC)961802249 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c NLC $d BTCTA $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d TOH $d UAB $d YDX $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 043 $a n-cn-qu $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-cn-qu 050 4 $a PQ3919.2.L3333 $b L4313 2017 055 0 $a PS8573 A815 $b L4213 2017 082 04 $a C843/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Laverdure, Bertrand, $d 1967- $e author. 240 10 $a LectodoÌme. $l English 245 10 $a Readopolis / $c Bertrand Laverdure ; translated by Oana Avasilichioaei. 250 $a First English edition. 264 1 $a Toronto : $b BookThug, $c 2017. 300 $a 254 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a Literature in translation series 500 $a Translation of: LectodoÌme. 500 $a "Originally published under the title: LectodoÌme © Bertrand Laverdure & Le Quartanier, Montreal 2008"-- Title page verso. 520 $a "It's 2006 and down-and-out protagonist Ghislain works as a reader for a publishing house in Montreal. He's bored with all the wannabe writers who are determined to leave a trace of their passage on earth with their feeble attempts at literary arts. Obsessed by literature and its future (or lack thereof), he reads everything he can in order to translate reality into the literary delirium that is Readopolis-a world imagined out of Chicago and Montreal, with few inhabitants, a convenience store, a parrot, and all kinds of dialogues running amok: cinematic, epistolary, theatrical, and Socratic. In the pages of Readopolis, Laverdure playfully examines the idea that human beings are more connected by their reading abilities than by anything else. Funny and sardonic, whimsical and tragic, this postmodern novel with touches of David Foster Wallace and Raymond Queneau portrays the global village of readers that the Internet created, even before the 2.0 revolution."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic formats. 546 $a Translated from the French. 650 0 $a French-Canadian fiction $y 20th century. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008121201 650 0 $a French-Canadian fiction $y 21st century. 700 1 $a Avasilichioaei, Oana, $e translator. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006001826 776 1 $a Laverdure, Bertrand, 1967- $s LectodoÌme. English. $t Readopolis. $b First English edition. $k Literature in translation series $k Literature in translation series $w (CaOONL)20179007432 830 0 $a Literature in translation series. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180106053201.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B02FDA72F2B011E79A81643B97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search