by Anne Hebert · Paperjacks · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9780773770683
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«Kamouraska» is the historical novel by Anne Hébert, published by Paperjacks in paperback (250 pages, in English).
In nineteenth-century Quebec, Elisabeth d'Aulnières endures an unhappy marriage to Antoine Tassy, a man she does not love and who mistreats her. Her passion for the American doctor George Nelson confronts her with social conventions, guilt, and the restrictions weighing on women of her era.
The work was originally published in 1970; this edition is from 1975. The cover indicates that Claude Jutra adapted it to film with Geneviève Bujold.
Will appeal to readers of Canadian literary and historical fiction and to those interested in Claude Jutra's film adaptation.
Anne Hébert, was a Canadian author and poet. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry.
