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Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1914. Before long, their talents emerge: Pierrot is…
a piano prodigy; Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. As they travel around the city performing clown routines, the children fall in love with each other and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary and seductive circus show the world has ever seen. Separated as teenagers, sent off to work as servants during the Great Depression, both descend into the city's underworld, dabbling in sex, drugs and theft in order to survive. But when Rose and Pierrot finally reunite beneath the snowflakes - after years of searching and desperate poverty - the possibilities of their childhood dreams are renewed, and they'll go to extreme lengths to make them come true. Bestseller. Winner of the 2017 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction (QWF). 2017.
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Dans un orphelinat de Montréal, toutes les filles s'appellent Marie et tous les garçons, Joseph. Mais parmi la grisaille des…
enfants abandonnés brillent deux étoiles : Rose et Pierrot. Elle a été surnommée ainsi à cause de la couleur de ses joues quand on l'a trouvée abandonnée dans la neige et lui, en raison de sa pâleur - et parce qu'il a toujours aux lèvres un sourire un peu niais.Les deux orphelins donnent des spectacles aux riches Montréalais pendant les Années folles. Il joue du piano, elle danse, et ils rêvent ensemble de fonder le plus grand cirque du monde. Arrivent plutôt la Crise, la pauvreté crasse et une double plongée dans le monde interlope. La Dépression est cruelle aux rêveurs qui continueront pourtant de chercher à se réunir au clair de la lune.L'auteure de La vie rêvée des grille-pain signe une romance d'une magie brute, portée par un érotisme troublant, où la misère se voile de paillettes et l'amour a raison de toutes les tempêtes. 2018. Titre uniforme: Lonely Hearts Hotel.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER Longlisted for the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction A Globe and Mail Most Anticipated Book A NOW…
Magazine Book You Have to Read A Toronto Star Book We Can't Wait to Read "Heather O'Neill is just getting better and better." —The Globe and Mail "It would be hard to overstate here just how the good the writing is in The Lonely Hearts Hotel. For it is stunningly, stunningly good." —Toronto Star "By the end I was a gasping, tearful mess." —Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man and No One Belongs Here More Than You "O'Neill is an extraordinary writer, and her new novel is exquisite." —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven Set in Montreal and New York between the wars, a spellbinding story about two orphans whose unusual magnetism and talent allow them to imagine a sensational future, from bestselling, two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Heather O'Neill The internationally acclaimed author returns with a stunning national bestseller in The Lonely Hearts Hotel. Exquisitely imagined and hypnotically told, it is a love story with the power of legend. Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1914. Before long, their true talents emerge: Pierrot is a piano prodigy; Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. As they travel around the city performing for the rich, the children fall in love with each other and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary and seductive circus show the world has ever seen. Separated as teenagers, both escape into the city's underworld, where they must use their uncommon gifts to survive without each other. Ruthless and unforgiving, Montreal in the 1930s is no place for song and dance, depicted by O'Neill as "a voyage across Montreal, from realms of innocence and districts of longing to zones of cruelty" (National Post). When Rose and Pierrot finally reunite they'll go to extreme lengths to make their childhood dreams come true