Divided passions

By Michelle Tisseyre

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552630250
• ISBN13: 9781552630259
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: KEY PORTER * FIREFLY
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.2" x 1.1" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

..the sleep .. of the newly reborn.

These final words of this engrossing novel, for me, capture the essence of where Michelle Tisseyre takes the story. It is a hard journey for the heroine of the story, Jeanne, that is set against the backdrop of the politics and times of Quebec and Canada after World War I and into the 1920's. Jeanne's journey in fact takes several turns, several "rebirths" -- each one building on the last, until she begins to understand herself more fully, and finds the internal power she never thought she had. For me this is the essence of our own lives -- growing up isn't achieved at the age of majority but in fact, takes a lifetime to fully understand and use one's own essence. Jeanne's journey is so very real.What makes this novel a wonderful read is the context in which Jeanne's story is told. The backdrop of Canadian politics during these years is fascinatingly told from various insiders' points of view -- Jeanne's father, her aunt and her husband. Here the history comes alive without being a lesson.My limited knowledge of French still allows me to understand the original French title -- "The Passions of Jeanne"-- which I do like better than this English title. And I'll go so far as to think that "passions" in French has a larger meaning than in English -- one that encompasses the emotional turbulance of finding one's way through life. If it doesn't, it should. This a meaningful book from that point of view.