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Aug 02, 2010
Ibis3
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it was ok
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twentieth-century,
canadian,
quebec,
cl-lifetime,
humanism,
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aging,
2014,
cl-2014,
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I usually love Gabrielle Roy's books but this one I found a little too tedious. I get that the tedium was part of the intended experience for the reader (to mirror Chenevert's own experience of his day to day life), but I sooo wanted it to end that I was (view spoiler). There wasn't much plot (just insomnia; wife's illness; doctor's appointment; a week of solitude in the bush; (view spoiler)
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