{"product_id":"the-road-past-altamont-gabrielle-roy-9780803289482","title":"The Road Past Altamont","description":"First published in French in 1966, \u003ci\u003eThe Road Past Altamont\u003c\/i\u003e pierces to the heart of a child's world, craeting a delicate, yet substantial network of impressions, emotions, and relationships. In her writing, Gabrielle Roy allowed \"nothing extraneous or false to stand,\" according to the translator, Joyce Marshall. The literary style of Roy, whose fiction reflects her childhood on the Canadian prairie, has often been compared to that of Willa Cather. \u003ci\u003eThe Road Past Altamont\u003c\/i\u003e takes a sensitive French-Canadian girl, Christine, from childhood innocence to maturity. Four connected stories reveal profound moments during her early years in the vastness of Manitoba. Christine's testament to Grandmother's creative power, her great adventure with an old gentleman at Lake Winnipeg and her clandestine one with a crude family of movers, her journey through time and space with aging Maman--all these characters and events convey Gabrielle Roy's preoccupation with childhood and old age, the passage of time and mystery of change, and the artist's relation to the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gabrielle Roy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803289480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803289482\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.25w x 0.41d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/1994 pg. 118","brand":"Gabrielle Roy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988267663615,"sku":"9780803289482","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_82b653da-f31b-420c-8bba-f74b08fc9fa4.jpg?v=1683293570","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-road-past-altamont-gabrielle-roy-9780803289482","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}