The cashier
By: Gabrielle Roy ; afterword by Marie-Claire Blais ; [translation by Harry Binsse]
Contributors: Binsse, Harry Lorin, 1905-1971
Series: The new Canadian library
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780771094170
Subjects: Bank tellers; Fiction
Work titles: Alexandre Chenevert
Description: In Alexandre Chenevert, the Montreal bank teller trapped by his narrow environment and acutely aware of his loneliness, Gabrielle Roy has created a vivid and poignant portrait of an ordinary man and his attempts to transcend his circumstances and his fate. Set in 1947 amid the crumbled dreams of the post-War world, and drawing on modern themes of personal alienation and of the restorative force of nature, The Cashier is a tour de force of characterization and empathy.
Notes: Translation of: Alexandre Chenevert.