BROSSARD, Nicole. Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2006. Susanne de Lotbiniere-Harwood, translation. First Edition. Hardcover. 210x131mm. 237pp. New.

Printed paper over boards; one quarter red cloth with black lettering to spine. When this novel appeared in French (as Hier), the media called it the pinnacle of Brossard's remarkable forty-year literary career. From its intersection of four women emerges a kind of art installation, a lively read in which life and death and the vertigo of ruins tangle themselves together to say something about history and desire and art.