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Heroine (1988)
It is October, 1980, the 10th anniversary of the October Crisis. In a bathtub in a rooming house near the city's heart, the Montreal's "Main", a woman is trying to negotiate her personal passage from Quebec's politically turbulent 70's to the threatening bleakness of the 80's. -
Main Brides: Against Ochre Pediment and Aztec Sky (1993)
Novel drawn from a bar on Montreal's Main, on a hot June day. There, a woman waits out the daylight and spins imaginary portraits of the women who pass around her. From the lives of her "brides," emerges a portrait of the woman who is facing the end of the century. Creating, in the face of an unspeakable annihilation, courage for herself, a way of melding light and darkness, a history of the present that lifts her out of fear. -
Spaces Like Stairs (1996)
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Spare Parts Plus Two (2002)
The world of Spare Parts is unpredictable, evocative and vividly distorted: a welfare cheque floats down the river, a cowboy spreads the Word of the Lord, and crotches tick like clocks. Gail Scott's densely textured tales about growing up female in a world where violence lurks just beneath the skin recreate the uncertainty of life. The initial appearance of this book, in 1981, caused a stir at a time when linear narrative was still the MO of radical writing. The fractured, incantatory language and tough imagery of these stories are as relevant and crucial now as they were then. This expanded and corrected edition adds two new pieces, 'The Virgin Denotes' and 'Bottoms Up' two innovative essays on narrative. -
My Paris (2003)
Sad diarist in conversation with Gertrude Stein, Walter Benjamin, and others, in contemporary Paris. -
R., or Exemplary Afternoons (In progress)
An exploration of internalized shame
See also:
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Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative (2004 ) by Camille Roy, Gail Scott, Mary Burger, and Robert Gluck, eds. -- Finalist 2004 Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction Anthology