Paper Houses
- Publisher
- Coach House Books
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2019
- Category
- Literary, Small Town & Rural, Family Life
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781552453926
- Publish Date
- Oct 2019
- List Price
- $19.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781770566101
- Publish Date
- Oct 2019
- List Price
- $12.95
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Description
Emily Dickinson is as famous for being a recluse as she is for her poetry. In this stunning novel, we see her struggling to reconcile spirit and flesh, preferring letters and reflecting that the only way to have books and life is to live through one’s own writing. Dominique Fortier brings Dickinson vividly to life, as if reanimating a flower that had been pressed in a book, through her reflections on language and what it feels like to be home.
About the authors
Dominique Fortier is an editor and translator living in Outremont, Quebec. Her first novel, Du bon usage des étoiles (2008), was nominated for a Governor General's Award and the Prix des Libraires du Québec, and Au péril de la mer won the Governor General's Award for French fiction. She is the author of five books, four of which have been translated into English: On the Proper Use of Stars, Wonder, The Island of Books, and Paper Houses.
Dominique Fortier's profile page
Rhonda Mullins is a writer and translator living in Montréal. She received the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for Twenty-One Cardinals, her translation of Jocelyne Saucier's Les héritiers de la mine. And the Birds Rained Down, her translation of Jocelyne Saucier’s Il pleuvait des oiseaux, was a CBC Canada Reads Selection. It was also shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award, as were her translations of Élise Turcotte’s Guyana and Hervé Fischer’s The Decline of the Hollywood Empire.
Editorial Reviews
'An exquisite fictional imagining of Dickinson’s life'
Sue Carter, The Star
‘Its language is luminous, precise; its structure, ambitious.’
Le Devoir
'In Paper Houses, anecdotes from the lauded American poet’s childhood and adult life are expanded into a chronological series of vignettes featuring truly Dickinsonian details'
Carly Vandergriendt, Quill & Quire
