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The dog years (Charles the Bold: Volume 1)

Tekijä: Yves Beauchemin

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Sarjat: Charles the Bold (1)

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Possibly the greatest novel published in Canada in 2004 -- the first in a historic series. It's as if Dickens or Balzac -- or Rohinton Mistry -- had decided to write the book that summed up life in east-end Montreal. This is the first volume of a quartet that has taken Quebec by storm, selling over forty-five thousand copies. On the very first page, we meet Charles Thibodeau being born. It's 1966 and the rest of Montreal is more excited by the fact that a new subway system is opening, but his birth is a big event for Charles's parents and for their working-class neighbours. Sadly, Charles's mother dies when he is four, her funeral interrupted by War Measures Act soldiers on the streets. Soon young Charles, like a younger Huck Finn, is fending for himself. While he adopts a stray dog, Boff, in turn he is taken away from his drunken, violent father and becomes part of the Fafard family nearby. His adventures follow thick and fast -- at school, where he avoids becoming a teacher's pet, despite being smart, in a part-time job where he encounters a pederast, and at summer camp, where he establishes himself as a rebel. By the end of the book, he has fully earned his title, Charles the Bold, leaving us eager to follow his further adventures. But the real hero of this book is Montreal, and its scores of memorable, lively characters who leap off the page. Like Gabrielle Roy in The Tin Flute, Yves Beauchemin has given us an unforgettable portrait of life in the francophone east end -- with more to come in this ambitious and richly rewarding saga. From the Hardcover edition.… (lisätietoja)
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Charles has a wonderful mother, Alice, and an abusive father, Wilfred, and a little sister who dies when she is still an infant. His mother dies too, and his father invites in his girlfriend, Sylvie. The main part of the story shows Charles' years from grade 1 to grade 6, until the point when he goes into secondary school (I suppose that may mean "Junior High" in Quebec terms.) He has really good quality friends, such as Henri who lives across the street, and later, Blondin (surname), a boy who lives in a nearby highrise appartment. Charles loves dogs and eventually his dad and Sylvie let him have an adpoted dog named Boff, but just barely. You see, the father beats up both the dog and his son. This book portrays very well the perilous journey that every young person takes through the world of family, friends, school, work, and the strangers who surround him or her.
I think I read in the promo for the book that something about the October Crisis (1970) would be in the book. As it turned out, not only was that in the book, but the Parti Quebecois provincial election victory of 1976, and the introduction of the laws on language for signage. But these were not prominent in the story, which focused squarely on the family lives of the characters. I am curious to see if in the two sequels, when presumably Charles gets to be an adult, if he himself will get involved in politics. It sure looks like he might be heading that way.
  libraryhermit | Jan 16, 2011 |
Deepened my regret at not mastering French well enough to enjoy the original. After reading this first volume, immediately bought and read the next two. ( )
  mielniczuk | Nov 21, 2009 |
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Possibly the greatest novel published in Canada in 2004 -- the first in a historic series. It's as if Dickens or Balzac -- or Rohinton Mistry -- had decided to write the book that summed up life in east-end Montreal. This is the first volume of a quartet that has taken Quebec by storm, selling over forty-five thousand copies. On the very first page, we meet Charles Thibodeau being born. It's 1966 and the rest of Montreal is more excited by the fact that a new subway system is opening, but his birth is a big event for Charles's parents and for their working-class neighbours. Sadly, Charles's mother dies when he is four, her funeral interrupted by War Measures Act soldiers on the streets. Soon young Charles, like a younger Huck Finn, is fending for himself. While he adopts a stray dog, Boff, in turn he is taken away from his drunken, violent father and becomes part of the Fafard family nearby. His adventures follow thick and fast -- at school, where he avoids becoming a teacher's pet, despite being smart, in a part-time job where he encounters a pederast, and at summer camp, where he establishes himself as a rebel. By the end of the book, he has fully earned his title, Charles the Bold, leaving us eager to follow his further adventures. But the real hero of this book is Montreal, and its scores of memorable, lively characters who leap off the page. Like Gabrielle Roy in The Tin Flute, Yves Beauchemin has given us an unforgettable portrait of life in the francophone east end -- with more to come in this ambitious and richly rewarding saga. From the Hardcover edition.

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