Spring tides
By: Jacques Poulin ; translated from the French by Sheila Fischman.
Contributors: Fischman, Sheila.
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: St. Paul, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780977857647
Work titles: Grandes marées.
Description: Canadian novelist Poulin's edgy allegory finds Teddy Bear, a translator of newspaper comic strips, living in happy isolation on a remote island, with his cat, his reference books, internal dialogues with a possibly imaginary brother and the Prince, a robotic tennis opponent. When the boss who commissions Teddy's work decides the cat must be lonely, the boss flies in on his helicopter a lady cat and black-eyed Marie.