MARCOTTE, GILLES (TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY ELISABETH ABBOTT) — The Burden of God

New York: Vanguard Press, 1964. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some edge wear and rubbing to the spine ends and one tiny nick to the top front panel. "Gilles Marcotte has more than 25 titles to his credit and no less than 1,500 articles, many of which have appeared in the French Writings of Canada , Liberty and Free City . He has been a literary critic at L'Actualité magazine for more than a quarter of a century. In addition to literature, he has also written on music, especially in the journal Liberté , and collected several of his chronicles. His work as a novelist and essayist is notable. From his first novel, The Weight of God (1962) , to his latest collection of short stories , The Death of Maurice Duplessis and Other News (1999) , to his latest novel, The Phaneuf Manuscript (2005) , he will have sketched an intellectual and moral portrait of Quebec's extreme acuity since the " Quiet Revolution " The Anthology of Quebec Literature (1978-1980) , which he edited, is a sum studied wherever Quebec literature and culture are taught. With four volumes totaling almost 2,000 pages, it is a colossal legacy." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .