Black Dance - by Nancy Huston (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Originally published in French in 2013 by Editions Actes Sud, Paris."--Title page verso.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A rowdy reel of a novel that spans a hundred years and one family's far flung roots by the internationally acclaimed author of <i>Fault Lines</i>.</b> <p/>Screenwriter Milo Noirlac is dying. As he lies in his hospital bed, voices from his past and present--real and imagined--come to him in the dark, each taking on the rhythm of his favorite Brazilian fight-dance, the capoeira. Seated next to him, Milo's partner, bumptious director Paul Schwartz, coaxes Milo through his life story; from the abuse he suffered as a foster child, to his lost heritage, his beloved grandfather's priceless library. As Milo narrates, his story becomes the pair's final screenplay, the movie that will be their masterpiece. <p/>With Milo's imagination in full flight, several generations of Noirlac ancestors --voices in French and English, German and Dutch, Cree and Gaelic--come to life. There's Neil Kerrigan his Irish grandfather, classmate of "Jimmy" Joyce, would-be poet and aspiring activist in the fight against British occupation, crushed by his exile in Quebec; Awinita, Milo's biological mother, an Indian teen prostitute; Eugénio, a Brazilian street child whom Milo finds and fosters; and Marie-Thérèse, Milo's tough-as-nails aunt. As each voice cascades through Milo's memory, a fragment of family, and world, history falls into place. <p/>Already a critically-acclaimed bestseller in France, Nancy Huston's <i>Black Dance</i> is a rich portrait of one man's life and death; a swirling, sensual dance of a novel, from an exceptional and rare literary voice. <p/><b>"As musical as a Bach prelude."--<i>Elle</i> (France)</b> <p/><b>"A magnificently structured novel, one that captivates us with its grace and power ...memorable." --<i>Madame Figaro</i></b><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Nancy Huston</b> is the author of twelve novels, including <i>Infrared</i>, <i>Fault Lines</i>, winner of the Prix Femina and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year; <i>Plainsong</i>, which won the Governor General's Award for Fiction in French; <i>Slow Emergencies</i>, winner of the Prix L' and the Prix Louis-Hémon; and <i>The Mark of An Angel</i>, awarded the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle.
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