Larry Volt
A Novel
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2001
- Category
- Literary, General, Political
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780968816646
- Publish Date
- Jan 2001
- List Price
- $19.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781554885602
- Publish Date
- Jan 2001
- List Price
- $9.99
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Description
Short-listed for the 2002 Governor General’s Award for Translation
Larry Volt is one of the rare Quebec novels that deals with the FLQ crisis. Pierre Tourangeau captures a generation of young people who are rebelling, but above all, searching.
About the authors
Pierre Tourangeau has published four novels. He lives in Quebec.
Pierre Tourangeau's profile page
Lazer Lederhendler is a full-time freelance translator specializing in contemporary Québécois fiction and nonfiction. His work has earned him many distinctions in Canada and abroad, including multiple nominations for the Governor General’s Literary Award, which he won in 2008 for the translation of Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner. He is also the translator of Gaétan Soucy’s novel, The Immaculate Conception, which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for French to English translation, and the winner of the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation awarded by the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Lazer Lederhendler lives in Montreal.
Awards
- Short-listed, Governor General's Award for Translation
