Last Night in Montreal
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Author
Contributors
Mandel, Emily St. John Author
Published
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group , 2009.
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Checked Out
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Description
Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. She spends her childhood and adolescence traveling constantly and changing identities. In adulthood, she finds it impossible to stop. Haunted by an inability to remember her early childhood, she moves restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers along with way, possibly still followed by a private detective who has pursued her for years. Then her latest lover follows her from New York to Montreal, determined to learn her secrets and make sure she’s safe. Last Night in Montreal is a story of love, amnesia, compulsive travel, the depths and the limits of family bonds, and the nature of obsession.In this extraordinary debut, Emily St. John Mandel casts a powerful spell that captures the reader in a gritty, youthful world—charged with an atmosphere of mystery, promise and foreboding—where small revelations continuously change our understanding of the truth and lead to desperate consequences. Mandel’s characters will resonate with you long after the final page is turned.
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Format
eBook
Street Date
06/01/2009
Language
English
ISBN
9781936071456
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Known for their graceful, lyrical prose, these fellow Canadians write intricately plotted, often nonlinear, dystopian fiction questioning the nature of humanity and society's definitions of good and evil. They populate their haunting novels with complex, flawed characters in fear for their future and in doubt of the past. -- Mike Nilsson
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Mandel, E. S. J. (2009). Last Night in Montreal . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mandel, Emily St. John. 2009. Last Night in Montreal. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mandel, Emily St. John. Last Night in Montreal Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Mandel, E. S. J. (2009). Last night in montreal. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Mandel, Emily St. John. Last Night in Montreal Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009.
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