Ha!: A Self-Murder MysteryMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2003 M10 7 - 864 pages On 15 March 1977, with his wife's consent, celebrated writer and former terrorist Hubert Aquin blew his brains out on the grounds of a Montreal convent school. Shocked by this self-murder, a filmmaker friend feels compelled to understand why Aquin killed himself - and discovers, at the heart of the tragedy, an unforgettable love story. A "documentary fiction" - a category which includes In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song - HA! is a seminal work that reinvents the audio-visual revolution of the last century. Interweaving photographs, documents, and images with testimony from Aquin's friends and contemporaries, Aquin himself, and the writers and artists who influenced him, this intriguing novel takes the reader on a Joycean tour of a metropolis in the midst of political and cultural turmoil. |
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... its history and makeup and how it's governed, and who have a general knowledge of Québec and Montréal, can leaf ahead to the Prelude. Ditto the intrepid souls who, like the poet Dante, prefer to plunge into the middle of the unknown ...
... its history and makeup and how it's governed, and who have a general knowledge of Québec and Montréal, can leaf ahead to the Prelude. Ditto the intrepid souls who, like the poet Dante, prefer to plunge into the middle of the unknown ...
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... its coat of arms signify the ethnic groups that built Montréal into a Canadian metropolis in the nineteenth century ... it's worth noting that Canada is a northern country, marked in most regions by hot summers with a fair fall of rain ...
... its coat of arms signify the ethnic groups that built Montréal into a Canadian metropolis in the nineteenth century ... it's worth noting that Canada is a northern country, marked in most regions by hot summers with a fair fall of rain ...
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... its reputation was based on its teaching of the liberal arts, on this March afternoon Villa Maria is humming with scientific activity, for it's ExpoScience Day at the school and all twenty-two classes are busy preparing projects to be ...
... its reputation was based on its teaching of the liberal arts, on this March afternoon Villa Maria is humming with scientific activity, for it's ExpoScience Day at the school and all twenty-two classes are busy preparing projects to be ...
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... it's a big firecracker going off – and continue walking slowly towards the convent. Arriving at the asphalt laneway that leads 10 from the convent down to the avenue Côte-Saint-Luc, Jacques glances to the left and sees a red car parked ...
... it's a big firecracker going off – and continue walking slowly towards the convent. Arriving at the asphalt laneway that leads 10 from the convent down to the avenue Côte-Saint-Luc, Jacques glances to the left and sees a red car parked ...
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... It's heartbreaking, overwhelming; it's a great loss for Québec literature; Hubert Aquin was without doubt one of our most cultivated and dazzling writers.” “His departure from Les Éditions La Presse had left him completely undone. It ...
... It's heartbreaking, overwhelming; it's a great loss for Québec literature; Hubert Aquin was without doubt one of our most cultivated and dazzling writers.” “His departure from Les Éditions La Presse had left him completely undone. It ...
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