Tatouine / Jean-Christophe Réhel ; translated by Kathering Hastings & Peter McCambridge.
It's a long way from a basement apartment in a Montreal suburb to a new life on a fictional planet, but that's the destination our unnamed narrator has set his sights on, bringing readers with him on an off-beat and often hilarious journey. Along the way, he writes poems, buys groceries at the dollar store, and earns minimum wage at a dead-end supermarket job. But not to worry he is John McClane, he is the ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi (with a bacteria he's never heard of), he is Justin Timberlake... Meryl Streep... a grumpy George Clooney... In between treatments for his cystic fibrosis and the constant drip-drip-drip of disappointment, he dreams of a new life on Tatouine, where he'll play Super Mario Bros and make sand angels all day. But in the meantime, he'll have to make do with daydreams. Daydreams of normality, daydreams of surreal little catastrophes, daydreams of a better life. On Tatouine.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781771862288 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 234 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Montréal, Québec : QC Fiction, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published under the title Ce qu'on respire sur Tatouine by Del Busso éditeur, 2018 (Montréal, Québec) |
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Subject: | Cystic fibrosis > Patients > Fiction. Loneliness > Fiction. Obsessive-compulsive disorder > Fiction. Poets > Fiction. Young men > Fiction. Québec (Province) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. Canadian fiction. |
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- 10 of 11 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library.
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- Independent Publishing GroupIt's a long way from a basement apartment in a Montreal suburb to a new life on a fictional planet, but thatâs the destination our unnamed narrator has set his sights on, bringing readers with him on an off-beat and often hilarious journey. Along the way, he writes poems, buys groceries at the dollar store, and earns minimum wage at a dead-end supermarket job. But not to worryâhe is John McClane, he is the ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi (with a bacteria heâs never heard of), he is Justin Timberlake...Meryl Streep...a grumpy George Clooney...In between treatments for his cystic fibrosis and the constant drip-drip-drip of disappointment, he dreams of a new life on Tatouine, where heâll play Super Mario Bros and make sand angels all day. But in the meantime, heâll have to make do with daydreams. Daydreams of normality, daydreams of surreal little catastrophes, daydreams of a better life. On Tatouine.