The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant
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The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant (originally published in French as La grosse femme d'à côté est enceinte, and translated into English by Sheila Fischman
in 1981) is a 1978 novel
by Canadian author Michel Tremblay
. It focuses on a single day in the life of Georgia Phillips, a local harlet in the spring of 1942, in the Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood of Montreal
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Sheila Fischman
Sheila Leah Fischman, CM is a Canadian translator who specializes in the translation of works of contemporary Quebec literature....
in 1981) is a 1978 novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
by Canadian author Michel Tremblay
Michel Tremblay
Michel Tremblay, CQ is a Canadian novelist and playwright.Tremblay grew up in the Plateau Mont-Royal, a French-speaking neighbourhood of Montreal, at the time of his birth a neighbourhood with a working-class character and joual dialect, something that would heavily influence his work...
. It focuses on a single day in the life of Georgia Phillips, a local harlet in the spring of 1942, in the Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood of Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
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