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1 online resource |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Summary |
As a way to draw visitors to their isolated fishing village on Quebec's North Shore, the tourist bureau commissions a documentary film recreating life as it was lived there in the 1940's and 50's. To gather material for the project, the filmmaker is sent in search of Rose Brouillard, now an old woman but raised on an island just offshore by Onile, a local fisherman. Rose is finally tracked down in Montreal, where she lives a solitary life fogged by one of the inevitabilities of old age - failing memory. "Dorothea" (the name Rose gives the young filmmaker), takes her back to scenes from her childhood and invites her to tell her story as they go, and so we return to a past assembled from Rose's fragmented recollections. Structured as a series of short cinematic "takes," this novel about recovering both personal and shared histories is told in a polyphony of voices, including Rose herself (as a child, an adolescent, and in her old age), the sexton of the village church, his three female cousins, an elderly neighbor, a villager who passes time on the harbor wall, and Rose's long-deceased mother. We see fishermen on the docks with their nets, hard-at-work villagers with shirtsleeves rolled up to the elbow, leafy gardens, and tree-lined streets, all recreated during Rose's reminiscences. The problem is that many of these scenes are invented, not real. Does that matter? Or are the stories we tell more important? |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Older women -- Fiction.
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Memory -- Fiction.
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Electronic books.
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Bas-Saint-Laurent (Québec) -- Fiction.
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| Added Title |
Rose Brouillard, le film. English
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hoopla (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9780889229211 (electronic book) |
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088922921X (electronic book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11859731 |
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