Book Description
Thunder and Light is the much-anticipated second book in Marie-Claire Blais's spectacular and ambitious trilogy chronicling the mood of our apocalyptic age. It is the sequel to These Festive Nights, winner of the Governor General's Award for French fiction; a novel Le Devoir called the Divine Comedy of our time.

About the Author
Marie-Claire Blais has been the recipient of the Governor General's Award for French fiction three times, the Athanase-David Prize, the Médicis Prize, the Molson Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the author of These Festive Nights. Nigel Spencer received the Governor General's Award for Translation for Translation for Thunder and Light.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The mood of an apocalyptic age is captured in evocative, moving language in this sequel to the acclaimed These Festive Nights. Familiar characters from the first book as well as new additions including the Blessed Bag Lady, who lives among the Manhattan skyscrapers like a modern Joan of Arc; Jessica, a young pilot sacrificed to her parent's ambitions; and two aging artists populate this world in which the extremes and contradictions of contemporary life are explored and reconciled. This French novel incorporates artistry, a fresh prose style, and a focused vision of the fictional world that are marks of a masterful writer.