SCRAPBOOK
Author: Nadine Bismuth
ISBN: 9781552787045 
Price; $24.95

During the run-up to the publication of her first novel, creative writing student Annie Brière meets Laurent Viau, her publishing house's copy editor. Her charms do not go unnoticed by Laurent and a romance begins. Yet Annie learns after a first night of passion that Laurent, although ringless, is nevertheless married with child. So begins her search for the meaning of emotional commitment, a search hampered by the sentimental entanglements of the novel's many characters. Her quest finds her at various times playing Tetris compulsively, finding solace in Leonard Cohen, and travelling from Lake Champlain to Paris, when not attending literary cocktails thrown by her publishing house at Montreal's Ritz Carlton. Will Annie ever find what she's looking for?

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Monique Roy, Chatelaine: "Nadine Bismuth describes the morals of her times and milieu while sparing us the clichés born of political correctness. A must read!"

Tristan Malavoy-Racine, Voir: "Once again, we are witness to the thousand lies and subterfuges born of infidelity."
                                            "intelligent, funny Polaroid snapshots . . . the first words from a voice we will be hearing for a long time to come."