Winner of the 2016 Grand Prix littéraire Archambault Written with gritty humour in the form of a confession, Mama's Boy recounts the family drama of a young man who sets out in search of his mother after a childhood spent shuffling from one foster home to another. A bizarre character with a skewed view of the world, he leads the reader on a quest that is both tender and violent. A runaway bestseller among French readers, Mama's Boy is the first book in a trilogy that took Quebec by storm, winning the 2016 Grand Prix littéraire Archambault, and selling more than twenty thousand copies. Now, thanks to translator JC Sutcliffe, English readers will have the opportunity to absorb this darkly funny and disturbing novel from one of Quebec's shining literary stars.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2018.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C843/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Translation of: Document 1 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781771663809 9781771663786
- LCCN
- PQ3919.3.B55
- LCCN Item number
- D6213 2018eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (196 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00976088 (CaOOCEL)455551
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Document one
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Part One 8
- Prologue 10
- A Little History 12
- Travels on Mouseback 15
- The Most Beautiful Girl in Rouyn-Noranda 23
- Author Introduction 26
- Bird-In-Hand 30
- Why Bird-In-Hand? 36
- A Problem Well-Stated 38
- Some Bad Ideas 41
- The Local Literary Scene 45
- Sébastien Daoust 50
- The Idea of the Century 57
- A Dying Genre 59
- The Idea of the Century 61
- The Frontman 64
- There’s No Accounting for Taste 72
- My Own Yoda 78
- Lessons From the Master 84
- Spelling Mistake Cookies 91
- An Impossible-to-Refuse Offer 94
- Part Two 102
- Tess’s Instructions 104
- Introducing Jude 106
- In Which We Learn The Extraordinary Way in Which Tess and Jude Met Their Idiotic Neighbour 110
- Part Three 114
- Chevrolet Monte Carlo 116
- Journey By Chevrolet Monte Carlo to Sainte-Anne-De-La-Pérade and Environs, With Some Notes on the 125
- A Little More Geography? 130
- Steve 136
- Justine Has a Huge Ass 142
- The Day of Big Surprises 147
- Celebrations 152
- Timing Belt 160
- Erratum 165
- 166
- Acknowledgements 170
- About the Author 172
- Colophon 173
