Thérèse and Pierrette and the Little Hanging Angel

By Michel Tremblay

This is the second of five novels in Michel Tremblay's Plateau-Mont-Royal series, an evocative, magical retelling of the author's own birth, childhood, and adolescence in a working-class Montreal neighbourhood populated by eccentrics, dreamers and imaginary characters of mythic proportions.

Three schoolgirls, "Th r se 'n' Pierrette" and their friend Simone, are caught up in the dark mysteries of their rites of passage: innocence moving into experience; life into birth. Circling around their uncertainties are cold, merciless predators, ready to strike at the slightest sign of weakness--the vicious hypocrisy of the Church, the cruel ignorance of the petty bourgeoisie, and the burning lust of the child molester.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889221987
• ISBN13: 9780889221987
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Ca vaut la peine d'etre lu (it is worth reading it)

I bought this book for a French class. It is so funny and sad at the same time. I discovered many expressions from Quebec. I won't get rid of this book in the near future.