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03943aam a2200589 i 4500 001 9A49BA1CFFE911EBB6EAFDEE22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210818010020 008 190921s2020 onc 000 f eng 020 $a 1552454029 020 $a 9781552454022 035 $a (OCoLC)1120094492 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d NLC $d BDX $d NLC $d OCLCF $d BYN $d VP@ $d NYP $d YDX $d CNWPU $d OCLCO $d OCL $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 042 $a lac 043 $a n-cn-qu 050 4 $a PQ3919.3.G46 $b D4713 2020 055 0 $a PS8563.E6294 $b D413 2020 082 04 $a C843/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Georges, Karoline, $d 1970- $e author. 240 10 $a De syntheÌse. $l English 245 14 $a The imago stage / $c Karoline Georges ; translated by Rhonda Mullins. 250 $a First English-language edition. 264 1 $a Toronto : $b Coach House Books, $c [2020] 300 $a 165 pages ; $c 21 cm 530 $a Issued also in electronic format. 520 $a "'In this singular story dedicated to the mother, the narrator creates an avatar to counter her pain of living. Karoline Georges manages to combine the real and the virtual around the complexity of family ties. The author approaches loneliness and representation of the body with astonishing lucidity. The Imago Stage transcends genres in an intelligent and powerful prose.' - Governor General's Literary Award Jury Growing up with a menacing drunk for a father and a grief-stricken mother, a girl spends her 1980s childhood staring at the television to escape the tension, depression, and looming violence that fill her suburban home. After winning a modelling competition, she dedicates herself to becoming a placid image onto which anything can be projected, a blank slate with a blank stare. Earning enough in Paris to retire in her twenties, she buys a studio in Montreal and retreats from the world and its perceived threats, cultivating her existence as an image through her virtual reality avatar. But when her mother develops cancer and nears the end of her life, our narrator is forced to leave her cocoon - surrounded by her posse of augmented reality superheroes - and interact with the world and her parents without the mask of her perfect, virtual self. A catalogue of the anxieties of an age - from nuclear war to terrorism, climate change to biological warfare - set in the past and not-too-distant future of Montreal, The Imago Stage is an ominous tale of oppression, suppression, and disembodiment."-- $c Provided by publisher. 500 $a Translation of: De syntheÌse. 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a Models (Persons) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Terminally ill $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mothers and daughters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Shared virtual environments $v Fiction. 650 0 $a French-Canadian fiction $z QueÌbec (Province) $y 21st century. 650 7 $a Models (Persons) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01024387 650 7 $a French-Canadian fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00934868 650 7 $a Mothers and daughters. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01026997 650 7 $a Shared virtual environments. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01740543 650 7 $a Terminally ill. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01147878 651 0 $a MontreÌal (QueÌbec) $v Fiction. 651 7 $a QueÌbec. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01207316 651 7 $a QueÌbec $z MontreÌal. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210434 655 7 $a Dystopian fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921637 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726589 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Dystopian fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a Georges, Karoline, 1970- $s De syntheÌse. English. $t Imago state. $d Toronto : Coach House Books, 2020 $z 9781770566248 $z 9781770566248 $w (OCoLC)1131818714 700 1 $a Mullins, Rhonda, $d 1966- $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317020508.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9A49BA1CFFE911EBB6EAFDEE22ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search