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It is October, 1980, the 10th anniversary of the October Crisis. In a bathtub in a rooming house near the city's heart, Montreal's Main, a woman is trying to negotiate her personal passage from Quebec's politically turbulent 70s to the threatening bleakness of the 80s. She is negotiating other passages, too: from a passionate open love affair with a male left leader, and from deep involvement in far left politics, to a new way of life and living whose form she knows can only be grasped as she speaks it.

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Each page steams with images, echoes, actions and reactions ... a magnificent view of a woman's perception of life, love and la belle province. <br>-- Toronto Star

Each page steams with images, echoes, actions and reactions ... a magnificent view of a woman's perception of life, love and la belle province.

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Gail Scott Gail Scott's fiction and criticism have appeared in several journals. She is the author of two novels: Main Brides (1993) and Heroine (1987); Spare Parts, a collection of short stories; and Spaces Like Stairs, a collection of essays. Most recently, she translated Lise Tremblay's Mile End ( La danse juive, Lemeac, 1999). She lives in Montreal.

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