Overview
Having followed the brilliant virologist Rgnier from Montreal to Marseille many years ago, Sadie now works as a researcher in a lab, spending most of her time among microscopic creatures who teach her about life as a parasite. By day, she pushes the limits of her understanding alongside Rgnier, who taught her that to study viruses, she must think infectiously, allow herself to be contaminated by dangerous ideas. By night, Sadie loses herself in bars, music, drugs, sensuality. Until she gets a call from the past that lures her back across the Atlantic. When her estranged father tells her that a bizarre virus has been found in his hospital, Sadie returns to Montreal and her family, and all the unexpected changes time has wrought, to solve this new puzzle. Soon she realizes that the person she thought she was-someone who can leave everything behind-no longer exists. What is left for her instead is sinking into the unknown to find out what happens when ideas come to life. This is a deeply inventive and singular novel about the power of metamorphosis and symbiosis. Combining the cerebral and the sensual, Sadie X explores humanity's relationship to the rest of the world, and the role of rationale-and its limits in our multilayered, regenerative existences.
Full Product Details
Author: Clara Dupuis-Morency ,
Aimee Wall
Publisher: Book*hug
Imprint: Book*hug
Dimensions:
Width: 13.30cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.303kg
ISBN: 9781771668477
ISBN 10: 1771668474
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 31 October 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Language: French
Reviews
"""A demanding and highly intelligent novel, Sadie X boldly challenges everything the reader thinks they know up to the very last page."" --Collections: La revue du livre d'ici ""Clara Dupuis-Morency is a virtuoso of language!"" --Chantal Guy and Karine Rosso, Plus on est de fous, plus on lit ""This 'novel of unlearning, ' which feels like an astonishing mix of Maylis de Kerangal and Virginie Despentes, is a high-wire act that could not be more timely."" --Chantal Guy, La Presse"
""A demanding and highly intelligent novel, Sadie X boldly challenges everything the reader thinks they know up to the very last page."" --Collections: La revue du livre d'ici ""Clara Dupuis-Morency is a virtuoso of language!"" --Chantal Guy and Karine Rosso, Plus on est de fous, plus on lit ""This 'novel of unlearning, ' which feels like an astonishing mix of Maylis de Kerangal and Virginie Despentes, is a high-wire act that could not be more timely."" --Chantal Guy, La Presse
Author Information
CLARA DUPUIS-MORENCY was born in Quebec City and lives in Montreal. Her first novel, Mre d'invention, was a finalist for Prix des libraires du Qubec, Prix du CALQWork by an Emerging Artist, and for the France-Qubec prize, Les Rendez-vous du premier roman. She also works as a translator and is the mother of twin girls. AIMEE WALL is a writer and translator. Wall's translations include Sadie X by Clara Dupuis-Morency, Vickie Gendreau's novels Testament and Drama Queens, and Sports and Pastimes by Jean-Philippe Baril Gurard. Her acclaimed debut novel, We, Jane was nominated for nine literary prizes including the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, the BMO Winterset Award, the ReLit Award for Fiction, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. Wall was born in Newfoundland and lives in Montreal.
