![]() The English edition was published in 1947 and was awarded the 1947 Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal. Roy won the prestigious Prix Femina in 1947 for the original French version titled Bonheur d'occasion (published in 1945). The Tin Flute Paperback Januby Gabrielle Roy (Author) 45 ratings Hardcover 9.68 32 Used from 2.00 4 Collectible from 4.75 Paperback 5.75 20 Used from 3.00 Mass Market Paperback 8.09 27 Used from 1.72 A poignant and beautifully written story of the little people in the depression-ridden slums of Montreal. ?a starkly realistic portrait of the lives of people in Saint-Henri, a working-class neighbourhood of Montreal regarded as the novel that helped lay the foundation for Quebec's Quiet Revolution of the 1960s.? Gabrielle Roy (1909-1983) was a French-Canadian writer. "With compliments of the Canada Council" stamp on free endpaper. Green cloth boards with pasted on portrait of the author front panel decorated in gilt on the front panel and spine illustrated with drawings by Harold Town. Roy, Gabrielle (translated by Alan Brown). ![]()
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