The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy, Book Club Edition, Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Vintage 1947 Book Club Edition of The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy, translated from the French by Hannah Josephson and published by Reynal & Hitchcock, New York. Originally published in French as Bonheur d'occasion, The Tin Flute was Gabrielle Roy's first novel and became one of the best-known works of 20th-century Canadian literature. This hardcover retains its original illustrated dust jacket with the subtitle “A Bitter-Sweet Love Story.” The blue cloth-covered boards have gold gilt title panels on the front and spine.

Condition
Dust Jacket: The original dust jacket has normal edge and corner rubbing along with yellowing from age. It remains in very good overall condition for a jacket dating to 1947.
Covers: Blue cloth boards with the gold gilt remaining intact and bright. There is bending/bumping at the corners and along the top and bottom of the spine.
Binding: The spine and binding remain tight. There are no loose or missing pages.
Pages: The pages show normal yellowing/toning from age. A previous owner's name is written on the inside front flyleaf. No missing pages.

Synopsis
The Tin Flute follows the Lacasse family as they struggle with poverty and uncertainty in Montreal's working-class Saint-Henri neighborhood during World War II. Florentine Lacasse works as a waitress and longs for a life beyond the circumstances in which she was raised. She becomes involved with the ambitious Jean Lévesque, who is determined to escape his own working-class background. Emmanuel Létourneau offers Florentine a very different relationship and a possible path toward greater security. Alongside Florentine's story, the novel follows her parents, Rose-Anna and Azarius Lacasse, as they struggle to provide for their large family amid unemployment, poor housing and financial hardship. The war forms the background to the family's lives and creates an irony central to the novel: military service and the wartime economy can provide opportunities and financial security that peacetime society failed to offer them. Although the original dust jacket describes The Tin Flute as “A Bitter-Sweet Love Story,” the novel is also a study of family, poverty, social class and French-Canadian working life during the Second World War.

History
Gabrielle Roy first published the novel in French in 1945 under the title Bonheur d'occasion. Set in the working-class Saint-Henri district of Montreal during World War II, the novel established Roy as an important voice in Canadian literature. The English translation by Hannah Josephson was published in the United States in 1947 as The Tin Flute by Reynal & Hitchcock. The novel was selected by the Literary Guild, whose Book Club Edition helped introduce Roy's work to a large American readership. The Tin Flute received the 1947 Governor General's Award for Fiction, while the original French-language Bonheur d'occasion received France's Prix Femina that same year.

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