Michel Tremblay A Great Consolation : Survive Survive & Crossing the Gulf of

Survive! Survive! transports readers to September 1935, to glorious, tragic times in the company of TiLou and la Duchesse douard, whose sparkling exchanges hide indissoluble pain to sombre, twilight times with Victoire and Tlesphore and between Josaphat and his illfated daughter. How to survive? they all ask, inextricably caught in lifes cycle of lost illusions and forgotten dreams. The series closes in August 1941 with Crossing the Gulf of Misfortune, when a grieving Nana and her family must share an apartment with Victoire and douard as well as with Albertine and her children. Outside this unbearably crowded household, war rages and rationing rules over daily life. But in a year, in May 1942, Nana the Fat Woman Next Door seven months pregnant, will open the fabulous Chronicles of the PlateauMontRoyal | Michel Tremblay A Great Consolation : Survive Survive & Crossing the Gulf of