Title: Grandes marées
First published: 1986
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.
Subjects: Fiction, general, Canadian fiction