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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... finally, there's the inspirational Latin motto, “Concordia Salus”, which means “Salvation through harmony”, sometimes more honoured in the breach than in the observance. • Since people embody their weather, it's worth noting that Canada ...
... finally, there's the inspirational Latin motto, “Concordia Salus”, which means “Salvation through harmony”, sometimes more honoured in the breach than in the observance. • Since people embody their weather, it's worth noting that Canada ...
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... finally got through to the police, I told him there was a man who had killed himself in the Villa schoolyard, so he said: – Can I have the address? And I said: – Well everybody knows where the Villa Maria is. If you come up Monkland ...
... finally got through to the police, I told him there was a man who had killed himself in the Villa schoolyard, so he said: – Can I have the address? And I said: – Well everybody knows where the Villa Maria is. If you come up Monkland ...
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... finally decides to have a look around. The policemen alerted by Monsieur Viau – Constables P. Léonard and C. de Montigny in patrol car 15-4 – are the first to arrive on the scene. They are soon joined by Monsieur Goyette and Monsieur ...
... finally decides to have a look around. The policemen alerted by Monsieur Viau – Constables P. Léonard and C. de Montigny in patrol car 15-4 – are the first to arrive on the scene. They are soon joined by Monsieur Goyette and Monsieur ...
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... finally concludes the interview: The life I'd like to have lived would have been to be rich, to own a Ferrari, to qualify as a Grand Prix driver, and to have taken part in a race every Sunday. And then one day to disappear! like an ...
... finally concludes the interview: The life I'd like to have lived would have been to be rich, to own a Ferrari, to qualify as a Grand Prix driver, and to have taken part in a race every Sunday. And then one day to disappear! like an ...
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... finally met me at the train station he was jealous and hostile. In Nice I tried to participate in what Hubert was doing at the Book Fair. During the previous few months he had often said he would like me to work at Les Éditions La ...
... finally met me at the train station he was jealous and hostile. In Nice I tried to participate in what Hubert was doing at the Book Fair. During the previous few months he had often said he would like me to work at Les Éditions La ...
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