{"product_id":"correspondent-dominique-bernier-cormier-9781773100135","title":"Correspondent","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted, Raymond Souster Award\u003cbr\u003eAn on-the-scene report of a childhood abroad. A child's vision of real-world events made real (and unreal) by the presence of his father.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMemories of snow falling on Quebec City's copper roofs; scientists tracking the location of a sinking submarine near the Russian Coast. Children flipping bright kopeks at a dancing bear outside a flea market; a translator awaking from a suicide bombing with ears ringing, surrounded by destruction. A young boy watching his father report the news on TV as hostages hold wet handkerchiefs to their mouths, trying not to breathe too much.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcross the street, a red sun sets the windows of the Hotel Ukraina on fire. The tallest of Stalin's seven sisters. We huddle on the couch in our pyjamas. My mother holding a remote in her lap. Static sky, bad reception. The TV clearing its throat. My father's body, cut in half, moving up and down the screen.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis remarkably confident debut collection offers three long prose poems, each divided into 19 sections, fusing images of bucolic coastal summers, a father fixed by a television broadcast, and the colours of a Moscow winter with vividly depicted scenes of gunfire, media scrums, and live reporting. In this unusual hybrid of the personal and the historical, Dominque Bernier-Cormier tenders alternating perspectives on what is said, what is seen, and where the silence begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dominique Bernier-Cormier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1773100130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781773100135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Goose Lane Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d","brand":"Dominique Bernier-Cormier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44078620705023,"sku":"9781773100135","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_20452327-ac79-4a3f-bb76-c5ba7a9acca7.jpg?v=1685476546","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/correspondent-dominique-bernier-cormier-9781773100135","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}