{"product_id":"9780889224186","title":"Duchess and the Commoner","description":"(This third volume in the \u003ci\u003eChronicles of the Plateau Mont-Royal\u003c\/i\u003e—an epic series of novels which imagines the lives of the characters of Tremblay’s plays—deals with an explicitly gay thematic: Tremblay’s metaphor for the Québécois desire for a more glamorous identity on the world stage.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the third volume in Michel Tremblay’s six-volume \u003ci\u003eChronicles of the Plateau Mont Royal\u003c\/i\u003e, an epic series of novels which imagines, in prose, the lives of the characters of Tremblay’s plays, in which each of them acts out their own personal drama: their loves, their disappointments, their travails, their agony and their ecstasy. It is in the novels, however, that these characters are seen in their context of time and space: the neighbourhood in which Tremblay and his extended family lived and grew up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Duchess and the Commoner\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on Albertine’s brother, Édouard, brother-in-law to ‘the fat woman’ and uncle to Marcel, and to the ‘fat woman’s’ son. In ths volume, Édouard launches his forays into the 1940’s world of Montréal show-business and creates his own astonishing role within it. As with all the novels in this series, a certain sense of wonder, even magic, emanates from the grandmother, Victoire, which in this episode is seen flowing through Édouard to his nephew, the brilliant and disturbed Marcel.","brand":"Talonbooks, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022815314160,"sku":"9780889224186","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889224186_p0.jpg?v=1763852799","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889224186","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}