![]() ![]() This is the reader’s cue to get comfortable and settle down for a long ride we’re six-hundred pages from our eventual destination, and there’ll be a whole lot of stories before we get there. We begin in 1958, in the town of Rivière-du-Loup, where Louis Lamontagne is home with his three children, knocking back gin as he starts another tall tale from his eventful past. ![]() ![]() Songs for the Cold of Heart (translated by Peter McCambridge, review copy courtesy of the publisher) is an epic tale centred on the Lamontagne family, French-Canadians with a touch of German blood in their veins. This one spans a century, taking the reader from Quebec to the rest of North America, and then later off into Europe, as it follows the members of a rather unusual family on their path into the new millennium… Since then, they’ve brought out a number of interesting books, but the latest returns to Dupont, this time for a far more ambitious work. Back in 2016, the first book published by QC Fiction, a press specialising in translation into English of contemporary Québécois literature, was Eric Dupont’s stylised memoir/novel Life in the Court of Matane. ![]()
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