Like a Child of the Earth

by Jovette Marchessault and MARCHESSAULT JOVETTE

Like a Child of the Earth, the first volume of Jovette Marchessault's autobiographical trilogy, won the Prix France-Qu bec in 1976. In it, the largely self-taught artist and author, who left school at the age of fourteen to work in a factory, reflects upon her "years of wandering before encountering painting and writing." Though a first novel, this is by no means a conventional account of growing up poor in the Plateau Mont-Royal. Rather it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889222614
• ISBN13: 9780889222618
• Release Date: February 1988
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"