{"product_id":"life-in-the-court-of-eric-dupont-9781771860765","title":"Life in the Court of Matane","description":"Nadia Comaneci's gold-medal performance at the Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976 is the starting point for a whole new generation. Eric Dupont watches the performance on TV, mesmerized. The son of a police officer (Henry VIII) and a professional cook--as he likes to remind us--he grows up in the depths of the Quebec countryside with a new address for almost every birthday and little but memories of his mother to hang on to. His parents have divorced, and the novel's narrator relates his childhood, comparing it to a family gymnastics performance worthy of Nadia herself.\u003ci\u003e Life in the Court of Matane\u003c\/i\u003e is unforgiving and we explore different facets of it (dreams of sovereignty, schoolyard bullying, imagined missions to Russia, poems by Baudelaire), each based around an encounter with a different animal, until the narrator befriends a great horned owl, summons up the courage to let go of the upper bar forever, and makes his glorious escape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric DuPont\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1771860766\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771860765\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Qc Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/16\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/30\/2016","brand":"Eric DuPont","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44077757595903,"sku":"9781771860765","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_db34177a-1b8a-4d31-9cfd-7b93d188f20d.jpg?v=1685471621","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/life-in-the-court-of-eric-dupont-9781771860765","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}