Canadian Fiction, Family & Friendship - Fiction, Literary Styles & Movements - Fiction
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Overview
Francois Galarneau is a dreamer, a modest, philosophical soul who loves to read - which he gets to do quite a lot in his job as a security guard in a Montreal mall. His brother Jacques is an intellectual, a writer of screenplays and radio dramas who lives - where else? - in Paris where he is writing a novel. His other brother, Arthur, is a revolutionary, a charismatic con-artist going by the name of Nadja Astac, who vanished without trace ten years ago. In Paris on a quixotic mission to help his Cambodian-refugee friend Paulo - via an arranged marriage with Catherine, Paulo's sister - Francois is stunned to see Arthur in a photo in the morning paper: Nadja Astac is in Brussels, in the hands of the police. Alarmed, Francois and Jacques attempt to track the elusive Arthur, but the trail runs cold; back in Montreal, Francois ends up camping out at the mall while the unexpected extras in his marriage package - five children and a criminally inclined fiance - overrun his small flat. Going to Philadelphia to guard a collection of antique erotic art for his boss's elegant wife - whom he dreams of seducing - sounds like a good break from it all. But that night, as he guards the paintings, out of the blue comes a phone call from Arthur. He is in New York City, and he wants his brothers to join him in his most audacious scheme ever ...Book Details
Published
June 11, 1995
Publisher
Coach House Pr
Pages
128
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780889104877