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Written in a baroque, multilayered style tinted with both lyricism and humor, this is the story of Fabrizio Notte, a filmmaker who makes documentaries on hit men. Invited to show his latest piece at a film festival in his home town of Montréal, he receives mixed reviews and begins to question himself. The trip serves as a pretext for an existential pilgrimage towards love and belonging, ultimately leading him back through time, through the vast, moving landscape that is memory, to his first love and ultimately, to himself.

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What to say about this fragmented novel, obviously written under the influence of jubilation? A novel whose inspiration seem blacker than pink? It does not bore you one second, not even when it overflows with dreamlike moments; it does not read like those stories that have been so cleaned up that amuse a moment but are quickly forgotten. With his furor to invent life, the author never fools you with tricks, nor does he succumb to facile artifices. One is tempted to say that he doesn't even take himself for an author at all. And this is rare, and excellent." —Réginald Martel, La Presse

A Friday in August

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    A Paperback / softback by Antonio D'Alfonso, Jo-Anne Elder

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      Publisher: Exile Editions
      Publication Date: 30/05/2007
      ISBN13: 9781550966398, 978-1550966398
      ISBN10: 1550966391

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Written in a baroque, multilayered style tinted with both lyricism and humor, this is the story of Fabrizio Notte, a filmmaker who makes documentaries on hit men. Invited to show his latest piece at a film festival in his home town of Montréal, he receives mixed reviews and begins to question himself. The trip serves as a pretext for an existential pilgrimage towards love and belonging, ultimately leading him back through time, through the vast, moving landscape that is memory, to his first love and ultimately, to himself.

      Trade Review
      What to say about this fragmented novel, obviously written under the influence of jubilation? A novel whose inspiration seem blacker than pink? It does not bore you one second, not even when it overflows with dreamlike moments; it does not read like those stories that have been so cleaned up that amuse a moment but are quickly forgotten. With his furor to invent life, the author never fools you with tricks, nor does he succumb to facile artifices. One is tempted to say that he doesn't even take himself for an author at all. And this is rare, and excellent." —Réginald Martel, La Presse

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