Mirror Lake
by Andrée A. Michaud
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Pub Date Mar 02 2021 | Archive Date Mar 09 2021
House of Anansi Press Inc. | Arachnide Editions
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Description
From internationally acclaimed crime writer Andrée A. Michaud, a brilliant and original tragicomic thriller about one man’s search for peace and sanctuary amid invasive neighbours and a mysterious death.
Retired fifty-something Robert Moreau flees a society he can no longer bear for Mirror Lake, Maine. Little does he suspect that an intrusive neighbour and a mysterious death will quickly dispel any illusions he may have had about finding sanctuary in isolation. The misanthropic Moreau quickly learns that his Thoreau-like vision is a fiction. And as in all fiction, nothing, not even Moreau’s own identity, is certain — except, perhaps, the friendship of his loyal dog, Jeff.
In this tragicomic novel of the confusion between the fabular and the real, brilliantly rooted in the forested Quebec-Maine landscape, Moreau is compelled to look deep in Mirror Lake’s shimmering waters and into the eyes of the man he is, was, and could be. Winner of the Prix Ringuet and adapted into a feature film, Mirror Lake is a masterpiece of Michaud’s canon, a playfully genre-mixing psycho-thriller that explores our mysterious existence and the bottomless self.
Advance Praise
“From the opening pages of Mirror Lake, Andrée A. Michaud leads us along the trail of a disturbing, grave and introspective narrative. Immediately, we are sucked in, until the mystery settles with a tone that is almost cheeky . . . In this novel replete with ambiguity, Michaud reveals herself to be a master of the zany and burlesque.” — La Presse
“A novel in which everything is a mirror, everything shimmers. A work of art, and funny too. Read this book.” — CKRL FM
“With vertiginous imaginative élan, [Michaud] has crafted a hallucinatory novel in which a misanthrope shamelessly disgorges his bile on characters born of American fables and bestsellers.” — ICI Radio-Canada
“What is most remarkable in this novel, aside from the always exceptional quality of Michaud’s writing, is the total coherence of the deranged psyche of her male protagonist.” — Entre les lignes
“An exploration of madness in all its states and in the fluid space where the real and the illusory converge. A mix of film noir and surreal comedy . . . an atmosphere redolent of Stephen King mixed with a touch of Deliverance and a healthy dose of humour.” — Le Devoir
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781487005832 |
| PRICE | $17.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 400 |
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