Mister Blue (Paperback)

from jnwelch

"I knew that I could trust Mr. Blue. He was behaving very well. He seemed to know exactly what to do: he was curled up against her and purring, showing her how much he liked being petted by her. He was telling her in his own way that being gentle isn't necessarily a disaster and that she mustn't ...

from TadAD

Once again, Poulin has crafted a story that has the feel of a folk tale: calm, humorous, haunting and compassionate. Poulin will leave you wondering about what is reality and what is imagination as he tells us the story of Jim, an author struggling with writer's block, who starts to find the cure...

from RandyMetcalfe

Jim is not a happy man, and his unhappiness intrudes upon his work, the writing of love stories, which proceeds at a crawl, diverts itself, pauses, grinds to a halt. He lives on an island in the St. Lawrence River in a house his father, years earlier, moved across the bay. Along with the house ca...

from cameling

Translated in English from French, an author's solitary writing idyll is broken when he spies footprints in the sand, oddly, the same size as his own, that lead him into a cave, wherein he finds a copy of The Arabian Nights with the name Marie K inscribed in it. Developing an obsession with a wom...

from richardderus

Rating: 4.5* of five The Publisher Says: By the Governor General Award and Quebec-Paris Prize-winning writer, a novel about a struggling writer and Mister Blue, his cat and sole companion until the day they discover a copy of The Arabian Nights in a cave along the beach. Tinged with melancholy, ...