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Exit

May 25, 2011 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9781897535660
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Description

Governor General's Award Finalist The Globe 100: The very best of 2011 Somewhere in Montreal, in the not too distant future, an obscure company offers custom-designed suicides for its clients with one condition: their desire to die must be pure and absolute. Antoinette Beauchamp is a successful candidate but her suicide is not. Now a bedridden paraplegic, hooked up to machines that monitor all her bodily functions, she tells her story, taking the reader into the Kafkaesque world of the company and its bewildering cast of characters. Exit is at once a profound examination of what it is that drives someone to want to end their life, as well as how that urge can be turned on its head against all odds. Written with her signature brio and acerbic wit, Nelly Arcan's last novel is a hymn to life. Praise for Exit: Top 10 Book of 2011, Shelf Unbound Book Club Pick, Shelf Unbound Recommended Read, 49th Shelf "A work of originality pushed to the limit. It's crazy. Full of imagination. Even funny at times. A story unlike any other." (Le Devoir) "a compelling crawl through the claustro confines of depression and sweeping suicidal desire ... Dark, beautiful, poignant and clever, Arcan's Exit is a powerful read." (The Globe & Mail) Praise for Nelly Arcan: "... Fantastically intelligent, always trying to second-guess how a woman should be, Arcan finds death the only answer to her predicament. In style and emotion - and honesty - her work is a much closer cousin to Edouard Leve's Suicide than to the archness of Belle de Jour or Catherine Millet. The best way to absorb Arcan's work is to read it in chronological order, and then to lament that the titles of her work - Whore, Hysteric, Breakneck, Exi - so succinctly and poignantly summarize the short life and hard-won philosophy of this exceptional writer." (The Times Literary Supplement)

About this Author

Nelly Arcan was born in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Her first novel 'Putain' (2001; English) 'Whore' (2004), drawing on her experience working in the sex trade in Montreal, caused a sensation and enjoyed immediate critical and media success. It was a finalist for both the Prix Médicis and the Prix Femina, two of France's most prestigious literary awards. Three more novels followed, establishing her as a literary star in Quebec and France: 'Folle (2004), also nominated for the Prix Femina, ' à ciel ouvert' (2007), and 'L'enfant dans le miroir' (2007). 'Paradis, clef en main' was her fourth novel and was completed just before she committed suicide at the age of thirty-six. David Scott Hamilton has a degree in linguistics and French, and has worked as a freelance translator since 1995, producing significant works for numerous clients, including the Canadian Museum of Civilization. He divides his time between Chambéry, France, and Vancouver, B.C.

ISBN: 9781897535660
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 224
Publisher: Anvil Press
Published: 2011-05-25

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