Vendor
	Liepman Literary Agency Marc Koralnik
Original language
French

UNE FEMME EXTRAORDINAIRE

Catherine Ethier

AN EXTRAORDINARY WOMAN

A tragicomic novel about solitude and the culture of appearances, borne along by a high-energy writing style

In English, a single sequin is called a scintilla, a word that also means spark, but isn't as pretty. An Extraordinary Woman is the story of scintillas without the glitter. Of damaged women. Women who shine too much. Discarded women caught in cracks in the floorboards that a vacuum cleaner will not pick up, even if, seen from above, they shine. These things happen.
What a time to be alive.

Catherine Ethier is a writer, columnist, and editor. She hascpresented various segments oncmajor media shows in Quebec (ICI Première Radio-Canada,ICI ARTV, VRAK, URBANIA, etc.) and co-hosted several podcasts. Since December 2020 she has been the spokesperson for Regroupement des maisons pour femmes victimes de violence conjugale, a collective of shelters for women who are victims of domestic violence. An Extraordinary Woman is her debut novel.

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Book Published 2022-03-01 by Stanké

Comments

An inimitable retro-chic style, with multiple metaphors and sentences like pearls, so well-crafted that they follow one after another like an elegant necklace of aphorisms. [ ] A novel of truths, flashes of brilliance, and melancholy splendours.

With An Extraordinary Woman, humourist and columnist Catherine Ethier has written a first novel that is tough, funny, and shouts out the truth about the pain of life.

Written in the same tone as the author's columns, An Extraordinary Woman bears witness to the love Catherine Ethier feels for words, to her delight in creating images, to her ability to combine the trivial and the refined.