Bookworm, no. 94
Richard Joseph on Lisa M. Gasbarrone’s “The Sense of the Sacred in the Early Novels of Quebec.” Isabel Huggan shares a letter from Mavis Gallant. Poetry by Yvette LeClair. And the nominees are...
Spreading the Good Words
The Sense of the Sacred in the Early Novels of Quebec
Lisa M. Gasbarrone
McGill-Queen’s University Press
330 pages, hardcover and ebook
It’s odd to think, in modern-day secular Quebec, that the Catholic Church kept the province under its thumb for much of the twentieth century. The decades before the Quiet Revolution, in the 1960s, a…
