{"product_id":"9780889226197","title":"The Blue Notebook","description":"When Fine Dumas’s notorious transvestite Boudoir is shut down after Expo 67, Céline is condemned to go back to working as a waitress at Le Sélect, attending to the frustrated appetites and exquisite pathos of its exotic clientele. Then a newcomer appears, the gorgeous Gilbert Forget, a musician who is not insensitive to her charms. Céline, a midget who has always thought she was unworthy, never having imagined the possibility of a mature loving and sexual relationship in her life, throws herself into a passionate affair with Gilbert, discovering the body’s thrills for the first time. Hanging out with his new crowd of artists and performers she gets a backstage look at a project that’s going to revolutionize Québec show business and become emblematic of its 1960's culture. Based on an historic event, \u003ci\u003eOsstidcho\u003c\/i\u003e as it was called both in life and in the book, is a play on the powerful Québécois oath hostie (the sacred host) which, like fuck in English, is used as a noun, adjective, verb, adverb, and in this production, as a punning, truncated form of hostie de show — one fucking great show.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs she has done twice before, Céline records the events and adventures of her life in a notebook. But now, inspired by the agony and ecstasy of first love, she reaches for the heights of romantic prose: while \u003ci\u003eThe Black Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e, her first, is a simple daily journal; and \u003ci\u003eThe Red Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e, her second, is a memory book, in which she records her life in retrospect embellished with rhetorical commentary; in \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e Céline steps outside of herself, using a narrator to tell her story. Having finally discovered herself, she is now also finally free of that self. Will her tempestuous relationship with Gilbert endure? Will there be a fourth installment?","brand":"Talonbooks, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008490651888,"sku":"9780889226197","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889226197_p0.jpg?v=1763855486","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889226197","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}