ImpurityAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 2 July 2020
Description
Bestselling author Alice Livingstone is dead. She leaves her philosopher husband, Antoine, to deal with her legacy, towards which he feels increasingly estranged. Confronted with his wifes much-reported disappearance, Antoine revisits their past relationship: open and liberal on the outside, but constrained and deviant on the inside. The news of the day (the death of JFK Jr., the self-immolation of a Buddhist monk), which plays on the television running in the novels background, gradually becomes significant in the lives of the protagonists - as revealed in Alices mysterious, posthumous last novel, A Pure Heart. Bit by bit, as we move closer to the novels centre, its narrators lose reliability; their discourses and pretenses become more and more confused, fragmentary, and misleading. Good intentions become corrupted and appearances prove to be deceiving. Impuritys conclusion is as gripping as it
is asphyxiating. After his masterpieces The Orange Grove and The Obese Christ, Larry Tremblay, one of Québecs most accomplished novelists and playwrights of the last two decades, offers his readers a riveting mystery, a self-reflective enigma whose decoding places on trial the
literary form itself.
A playful and macabre narrative tour de force, Impurity weaves a fascinating web of interlocking narratives in an epistolary puzzle connecting forms with voices, and voices with revelations.
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