{"product_id":"9781770562417","title":"Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNominated for a Governor General's Award for Translation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYesterday, on my way back from the museum: my head is full of images of storms. A boundless sea of paintings and photographs. Other storms I build like a backdrop, with sombre and anonymous characters, impossible to identify. I remain thus all evening, pressed up against the existence of a storm without feeling threatened. Waiting. After a few moments I become, I am, the storm, the disruption, the precipitation, the agitation that puts reality in peril. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarla Carlson is at the Hotel Clarendon in Quebec City trying to finish a novel. Nearby, a woman, preoccupied with sadness and infatuated with her boss, catalogues antiquities at the Museum of Civilization. Every night, the two women meet at the hotel bar and talk – about childhood and parents and landscapes, about time and art, about Descartes and Francis Bacon and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen \u003ci\u003eYesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in French (as \u003ci\u003eHier\u003c\/i\u003e), the media called it the pinnacle of Brossard’s remarkable forty-year literary career. From its intersection of four women emerges a kind of art installation, a lively read in which life and death and the vertigo of ruins tangle themselves together to say something about history and desire and art.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eHier\u003c\/i\u003e is a book in which the love of language, authorial anxiety and the generosity of a writer who has dedicated herself to the craft of writing are truly revealed.’ – \u003ci\u003eLe Devoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘An explorer of language, Brossard has, for many years, pursued a demanding and unarguably original oeuvre. \u003ci\u003eHier\u003c\/i\u003e, her latest book, is a kind of sum or synthesis of her research and her meditations.’ – \u003ci\u003eLettres Québécoises \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182271021296,"sku":"9781770562417","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781770562417_p0.jpg?v=1763708095","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781770562417","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}