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TOM MCSORLEY
Canadian Encyclopedia
01-01-2002
tout prendre
Author: TOM MCSORLEY
Claude is uncertain. He is a young bourgeois man with a number of accomplishments, but his life has reached an impasse. He begins to question the choices he's made and life's possibilities. Everything is under critical scrutiny: his family, his relationships, whether or not to become a father with his Haitian girlfriend, and most importantly, what to decide about his sexual orientation. Structured loosely as Claude's own personal confessions and filled with allusions to jazz, poetry and French New Wave cinema,
tout prendre
offers up Claude's experience as symptomatic of the concerns, ...