Fiction. Translated from the French by Susanne de LotbiniereHarwood. CarlaCarlson is at the Hotel Clarendon in Quebec City trying to finish a novel.Nearby a wom... » 

Fiction. Translated from the French by Susanne de LotbiniereHarwood. CarlaCarlson is at the Hotel Clarendon in Quebec City trying to finish a novel.Nearby a woman preoccupied with grief and infatuated with her bosscatalogues antiquities at the Museum of Civilization. Every night the twowomen meet at the hotel bar and talkabout childhood and parents andlandscapes about time and art about Descartes and Francis Bacon and writing.From their talk emerges a lively and beguiling read about life and death andthe vertigo of ruins. A new work by Brossard is an eventYESTERDAY AT THEHOTEL CLARENDON is not merely experimental. Its radicalThe Globe and Mail.Nicole Brossard has published more than thirty books over the last forty years.She has received two Governor Generals Awards the AthanaseDavid Prize andthe W. O. Mitchell Prize. She lives in Montreal. «