Most Popular Books by Michel Tremblay

"A virtuoso piece of writing by a master craftsman". -- Toronto Star

This classic play has been translated before, but only into a pallid approximation of the original joual. Scots, however, is an energetic and earthy vernacular with a distinctive sound system equal to joual. The play, a landmark in Canadian theatre, can now be truly appreciated in this superb translation, just as audiences in Glasgow and Moscow have learned to laugh with these ladies.

The powerful story of one woman, Albertine, at five times in her life. Cast of 6 women.

A beloved brother returns to his family. Cast of 6 women and 2 men.

Michel Tremblay''s fourth book of autobiographical narratives inspired by his childhood and youth.

With humour and poignancy, Tremblay offers glimpses of himself and his mother at five different stages of their lives together.

An account of Michel Tremblay''s discovery of theatre, from his first recognition of the imagination to his first drama-competition win.

(This third volume in the Chronicles of the Plateau-Mont-Royal--an epic series of novels which imagines the lives of the characters of Tremblay''s plays--deals with an explicitly gay thematic: Tremblay''s metaphor for the Québécois desire for a more glamorous identity on the world stage.) This is the third volume in Michel Tremblay''s six-volume Chronicles of the Plateau-Mont-Royal, an epic series of novels which imagines, in prose, the lives of the characters of Tremblay''s plays, in which each of them acts out their own personal drama: their loves, their disappointments, their travails, their agony and their ecstasy. It is in the novels, however, that these characters are seen in their context of time and space: the neighbourhood in which Tremblay and his extended family lived and grew up. The Duchess and the Commoner focuses on Albertine''s brother, Édouard, brother-in-law to ''the fat woman'' and uncle to Marcel, and to the ''fat woman''s'' son. In ths volume, Édouard launches his forays into the 1940''s world of Montréal show-business and creates his own astonishing role within it. As with all the novels in this series, a certain sense of wonder, even magic, emanates from the grandmother, Victoire, which in this episode is seen flowing through Édouard to his nephew, the brilliant and disturbed Marcel.

As an innovative chronicler of the "little people" of Quebec, Michel Tremblay has no peer. Yet few Anglophone readers realize that Tremblay began as a writer of works of fantasy. Now, however, Michael Bullock, who won the Canada Council translation award for his translation of Tremblay''s first collection of stories - Contes pour buveurs attardés (Stories for Late Night Drinkers) - has worked his magic upon Tremblay''s first novel, La Cité dans l''oeuf (1969).

It is June 20, 1952, a decade after the events described in The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant, the first volume of Michel Tremblay''s series of autobiographical fiction. The mystic, yet palpable instant of summer''s arrival is experienced simultaneously by the fat woman''s son (who is never named) and Marcel. These moving, profoundly different epiphanies of a transforming world, seen through the memories of the characters, set the stage for the action of the novel which takes place in the space of this single, evocative day. The fat woman''s son experiences this moment as an episode of profound personal objectification--he sees himself as in a photo of that larger, inclusive moment. Marcel, on the other hand, literally seizes the moment, and stores it in his school bag as a physical thing. It is also the day of final exams at the École Saint-Stanislas where the fat woman''s son, a boy who lives inside the books he loves, is in the "gifted" class, and his cousin Marcel, the "mad" family terror, is in the class for "slow learners." Racked by envy at what he sees as Marcel''s genius--his ability to create and function in another dimension of reality--the gifted child blanks out during the French exam. The first quarter of the moon--which rises over the final scenes of the novel in which the fat woman''s son recognizes and acknowledges his cousin Marcel''s genius--is an exquisitely crafted and resonant metaphor for the symbiotic relation between the imaginary and the real, the privileged "educated elite" and the "great unwashed," innocence and experience, sanity and madness.

A young waitress recounts her trials and surprising allies in a lifelong battle against social stigma.

This fourth novel in the Chronicles of the Plateau Mont-Royal follows Édouard, the fat woman''s brother-in-law, as he explores Paris.

It''s May 1922, wedding preparations are in full swing, and old memories, past desires, and big regrets threaten to turn the big celebration into a big melee.

This atlas presents 233 virus diagrams selected for their scientific content, clarity, originality, and historic, didactic, and aesthetic value. Virus Life in Diagrams assembles the many diagrams of viral life cycles, particle assembly, and strategies of nucleic acid replication that are scattered throughout the literature. The diagrams cover vertebrate, invertebrate, plant, bacterial, fungal, and protozoal viruses, viroids, and prions. They offer a dynamic illustration of the time course of viral life cycles not available in photographs. They also offer speculative elements that project the possible results of future research, as well as historical documentation that shows the development of virology. This valuable reference book for virologists, microbiologists, molecular biologists, geneticists, and students in these areas is the first atlas to compile illustrations of viral morphogenesis in one complete source.

Cultural awakening and a country-and-western singer from Montreal''s The Main." Cast of 4 women, 13 men and a chorus.