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ISBN: 0977857646

ISBN13: 9780977857647

Spring Tides

Name: Ready for a Movie Screen
Item: Spring Tides
Rating: 5
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By Jacques Poulin

Peacefully employed on an uninhabited island, Teddy Bear, a translator of comic strips, lives in the company of his faithful dictionary, his marauding cat, Matousalem, and the Prince, his tennis ball machine. Convinced that the translator's happiness is in jeopardy, his boss helicopters in a few solitude-seeking companions: the lovely and elusive Marie, the aging nudist Featherhead with her extroverted Chihuahua in tow, Professor Moccasin, the somewhat deaf comic book scholar, the irritable Author, the Ordinary Man, and the Organizer, sent to "sensitize the population." The feverish pitch of the island's discordant chorus rises with the spring tides. Jacques Poulin's hilarious philosophical fable is an existential masterpiece.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0977857646

ISBN13:9780977857647

Release Date:August 2007

Publisher:Archipelago Books

Length:237 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.8" x 6.5"

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Rated 5 stars
Ready for a Movie Screen

By Thriftbooks.com User, January 28, 2008

This whimsical book features a myriad of fascinating characters whose interplay gives the work a poignant satirical aspect. Very visual as well as well written, it gives the reader an insight into the worlds of journalism, cartoons, Canadian culture and economy. It would make an excellent movie.

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Exercises in Space

By Thriftbooks.com User, November 18, 2004

I first read "Les Grandes Marées" or "Spring Tides" in University as part of a course in French Canadian Literature at UBC. If I was, admittedly, initially rather jaded by the material we covered, this book presented me with a whole new perspective, not only on life, but on what French-Canadian literature and society can be. I have since read and re-read this book, most recently on a bus from Madrid to Warsaw, and it never...

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