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Author:
Goudreault, David, author.
Title:
Mama's boy / [David Goudreault ; translated by J.C. Sutcliffe].
Edition:
First English edition.
Publisher:
Book*hug,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
178 pages : portrait ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Suicide--Fiction.
Foster home care--Fiction.
Mother and child--Fiction.
French-Canadian fiction--21st century.
Psychological fiction.
Confessional fiction.
Canadian fiction.
Other Authors:
Sutcliffe, J. C., 1978- translator.
Other Titles:
Bête à sa mère. English.
Notes:
Originally published as La bête à sa mère by Les Editions Internationales Alain Stanké : Montreal, ©2015.
Summary:
"My mother was always committing suicide. She started out young, in an amateur capacity. But it didn't take long for Mama to work out how to make psychiatrists take notice, and to get the respect reserved for the most serious cases. Written with gritty humour in the form of a confession, Mama's Boy recounts the family drama of a young man who sets out in search of his mother after a childhood spent shuffling from one foster home to another. A bizarre character with a skewed view of the world, he leads the reader on a quest that is both tender and violent."-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Literature in translation series.
ISBN:
1771663820
9781771663823
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1042289456
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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