Background
Huston, Nancy Louise was born on September 16, 1953 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Daughter of James Palmer Huston and Mary-Louise (Kester) Engels. arrived in France, 1973.
(Nancy Huston’s The Goldberg Variations, which was shortli...)
Nancy Huston’s The Goldberg Variations, which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Translation, echoes Bach’s Variations in its structure and rhythms, and ultimately, its irony. "Suppose you invite thirty people to your home, people whom you love or have loved, to listen to you perform Bach’s Goldberg Variations. And say that this concert unfolds like a midsummer night’s dream, that is, you, Liliane, succeed in vibrating thirty people like so many variations, each at a different tune — you must oscillate between memory and speculation; you must, above all, master your fears — maybe then, all these fragments of music would dance into the same stream, and that you would call The Goldberg Variations, a novel."—Nancy Huston
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(Take a drop of existential angst, mix with a group of old...)
Take a drop of existential angst, mix with a group of old friends, stir in the sweet agony of midlife nostalgia, and you have the recipe for the Thanksgiving dinner from hell - especially when it's narrated in part by a mischievous God who pulls their strings and show us the workings. A group of cosmopolitan friends in midlife gather in New England for a Thanksgiving dinner - and are trapped there when it snows. Sean, the Irish hard-drinking poet is their host, but hasn't told them he's dying of cancer. In fact none of them would be there if they didn't have the kind of dysfunctional lives and problems which prevent them being with their own families. With the exception of the enigmatic outsider, a new young trophy wife, they all know too much about each other, their weak points and failures. Relationships and histories criss-cross; they have little in common except a mutual past and a search for meaning in the present. And meanwhile they're all at the mercy of fate - both inevitable and surprising, funny and tragic.
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(WHEN PAULA INHERITS the fragments of her grandfather Padd...)
WHEN PAULA INHERITS the fragments of her grandfather Paddon's journal, she embarks on an imaginative and obsessive journey to re-create the troubled history of her ancestors. From the hardships of the early frontier, through the Great War and Depression, and into the boom times of the 1950s, Plainsong brilliantly captures the story of four generations of a family and a prairie town shaped by the sweeping forces of change. Since the end of the nineteenth century, the town of Anton has been home to the Sterling family: the brothers, John and Jake Sterling, and John's son Paddon. Paddon is an intellectual, a man who intends to make a philosophical study of time his life's work, but he finds his dream defeated by a confluent series of circumstances: an early marriage to a good but unimaginative woman, the birth of one child after another, the need to support his family, the times themselves, and his own mercurial temperament. The question of salvation is central to this evocative and incantatory novel: Can someone who considers himself a failure be "saved" by having his story told by someone who loves him deeply? Ultimately, Plainsong is a celebration of the inescapable ties of family and place, and the redemptive power of the imagination.
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Huston, Nancy Louise was born on September 16, 1953 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Daughter of James Palmer Huston and Mary-Louise (Kester) Engels. arrived in France, 1973.
Bachelor, Sarah Lawrence College, 1975. Diploma in semiology, Ecole de Hautes Etudes, Paris, 1977. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Montréal, 2000.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Guelph University, 2003.
Writer-in-residence American University Paris, 1989. Instructor women's studies Columbia University, Paris, 1982-1988. Visiting professor French Literature University Massachusetts, Amherst, 1990.
Visiting professor French Literature Harvard University, Cambridge, 1994.
(Take a drop of existential angst, mix with a group of old...)
(Nancy Huston’s The Goldberg Variations, which was shortli...)
(WHEN PAULA INHERITS the fragments of her grandfather Padd...)
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Married Tzvetan Todorov, May 18, 1981. Children: Léa, Alexandre.