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Vaudeville! 2nd Edition
Author(s): Gaétan Soucy (Author), Sheila Fischman (Translator)
- Publisher: House of Anansi Press
- Publication Date: 10 Jan. 2008
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 440 pages
- ISBN-10: 088784782X
- ISBN-13: 9780887847820
Book Description
Gaétan Soucy sets this acclaimed novel in a parallel-universe New York, just before the great stock market crash of 1929. Xavier X. Mortanse is an apprentice demolition worker who believes he’s an immigrant from Hungary. By the time Xavier finds a singing frog in a miniature coffin, tries his luck on the vaudeville stage, and upsets a grandmaster chess match, Soucy has seduced readers into a netherworld of unforgettable eccentrics that riffs on chaos, corruption, and the surprising light of the human spirit.
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About the Author
Gaetan Soucy has written four novels to acclaim in Canada and abroad. He teaches philosophy and lives in Montreal.
