Manitoba History, September 22nd, 2000
Francois Ricard, Gabrielle Roy: A Life, translated by Patricia Claxton, Toronto:McLelland and Stewart, 1999, 600 pp. ISBN, 0-77107-7451-4, $35.00.
Francois Ricard, Professor of French literature at McGill, is the author of several books such as La Litterature contre ellememe, 1985 (Governor General's Award for non-fiction), and the highly acclaimed La Generation lyrique, 1992. His privileged relationship with Gabrielle Roy which evolved over the years, from agent to assistant and then friend, gave him an enviable position from which to become her biographer. And, as he admits in Gabrielle R...
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