| Testament Contributor(s): Gendreau, Vickie (Author), Wall, Aimee (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1771662522 ISBN-13: 9781771662529 Publisher: Book*hug Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Biographical |
| Dewey: 843.6 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.2" W x 7.8" (0.45 lbs) 152 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: On June 6, 2012, Vickie Gendreau was diagnosed with a brain tumour. In between treatments, between hospital stays and her room of her own, she wrote Testament, an autofictional novel in which she imagines her death and at the same time, bequeaths to her friends and family both the fragmented story of her last year and the stories of the loved ones who keep her memory alive, in language as raw and flamboyant as she was. In the teasing and passionate voice of a twenty-three-year-old writer, inspired as much by literature as by YouTube and underground music, Gendreau's sense of image, her relentless self-deprecation, and the true emotion in every sentence add up to an uncompromising work that reflects the life of a young woman who lived without inhibitions, for whom literature meant everything right up until the end. In this way, Testament (translated by talented writer and translator Aimee Wall), inverts the elegiac, grief memoir form and plays with the notion of a last testament, thereby beating any would-be eulogists to the punch. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gendreau, Vickie: - Vickie Gendreau was born in Montréal in 1989. While working in Montréal strip clubs from October 2009 to June 2012, she was also active in the literary community, where she participated in events like the Off-Festival de poésie de Trois-Rivières. She was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2012, and passed away a year later. Her first novel, TESTAMENT, written after her diagnosis, was published in the fall of 2012 and was long listed for the 2013 Prix littéraire France-Québec. Her second novel, Drama Queens, was published in 2014.Wall, Aimee: - Newfoundland-native Aimee Wall is a writer and translator. Her essays, short fiction, and criticism have appeared in numerous publications, including Maisonneuve, Matrix Magazine, the Montreal Review of Books, and Lemon Hound. Wall has translated Vickie Gendreau's TESTAMENT (BookThug, 2016) and Jean-Philippe Baril Guerard's SPORTS AND PASTIMES (BookThug, 2017). She lives in Montreal. |