Ms Rich Et Plus Divers

The story takes place in the sixties , Quebec, before or at the beginning of the Quiet Revolution . The province is dominated by English and clergy . Even the French who succeed to look better , give English names to their shops.

Initial situation of the novel

This is not the case of Francis Galarneau , which has an old bus converted into fast food restaurant , called " Au Roi du hot dog" and installed at the roadside . If he is the owner , he is the only employee . He spent his entire days , sometimes writing a poem when it is more quiet , reads a lot . Marise his companion suggested he write a book, to deal with. Jacques and his brother, screenwriter and writer, the currently promoted. He does. He writes , tells his life haphazardly , he is the narrator of the story , in addition to being the main character.

He wanted to be an ethnographer , see the world, prepares hot dogs and hamburgers. At twenty- six he considers his damn life. His brothers, Jacques and Arthur , with whom he formed a trio of vampires when he was little , they managed their lives , they, they have a reputation, but not him. They have studied , it has interrupted the death of their father. Educated enough to know what was missing , not enough to hope to reach .

Past Francois Galarneau

Children, their families never had a good reputation too , the mother spent his nights reading soap and comics novels, the father took the whores on his boat , girls of ill repute in the sight of all and often did not work . This is the grandfather who was Aldéric support them. They had suffered , had supported each other , had no close friends. At the end of adolescence, each took a different direction.

Francis had worked at the hotel Canada for one year as assistant bartender and had expatriate in Lévis, was married there with a rich and beautiful young woman , had been betrayed , cheated . At the time, it was very difficult to have all permissions for divorce. But he was gone , returned to him .

This history

That 's when he bought the bus. The restaurant. Later he met Marise . When Francis started writing the book, they have been together for two years. One evening , Jacques takes them to a nice restaurant, eating fondue , puts little known in Quebec at the time, and cinema. Jacques and Marise are attracted to each other, caress , François let them , but reacts badly to news broadcast on the screen after the film, the images of children starving in Congo.

A few days later , Marise was struck by a car , we just tell François closing the restaurant and follows the police to the station . His wife was transported to the Montreal Jewish Hospital , he went to join her bus . Once there , one replied in English. We can not find the file Marise , he imagines the worst , we have already sent to the morgue , waiting for hours until morning. Only to learn that she had nothing , she went back before his arrival, she telephoned a Mr. Galarneau who came to get away. Jacques . It surprises them together in the apartment of the latter.

François becomes almost mad with grief . He gets drunk , wants to do something constructive with his pain, as found a chain restaurant but it

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