The Blue Books

Fiction. Translation. Playful, innovative and subversive, Nicole Brossard's writings have profoundly influenced a generation of readers and writers. THE BLUE BOOKS collects Brossard's first three novels (A BOOK, TURN OF A PANG, and FRENCH KISS, OR, A PANG'S PROGRESS), written in the early seventies and long out of print, in their original English translations, making available once again these groundbreaking works of Canadian feminism and postmodernism. "Her writing is a multi-toned mysterium of the possibilities of another sex (lesbian), another language (feminist) and another culture (French). That all of these elements blossom, gloriously contaminating both themselves and our reading, is an indication of the power Brossard wields behind the page"--Aritha van Herk.