 True
Copies
AUTHOR: Monique LaRue
ISBN: 0921833474
Winner of the 1990 Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal, True Copies is an evocative tale of love, loss and deception. Claire, a young Québecoise, has been asked to retrieve a computer disk containing essential details of a potentially lucrative translation program her husband has been developing. When she discovers that the disk is missing from the research lab, she begins a quest that involves her in complicated intrigues, leading her through the Silicon Valley and into the streets of Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco.
REVIEWS: "True Copies is a suspense-filled mystery thriller, complete with a murder, obscure messages and lethal espionage in the computer industry. LaRue cleverly interweaves references to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon into her story. The connection, of course, is highly appropriate, because in Hammett's novel the statuette of the Maltese falcon turns out to be a replica rather than the original. True Copies is an accomplished and engaging work of fiction which shares the social realism of Gabrielle Roy and Yves Beauchemin."—The Globe & Mail
"True Copies is a polyphonic novel, a love story coupled with an intrigue which unfolds in the California computer milieu, creating a suspense where Dashiel Hammett's shadow and the memory of The Maltese Falcon's characters hover." —MTL Magazine
"What is striking is her profound knowledge of people, of the motives behind their actions and of what moves or thrills them. Not an acquired knowledge, but a knowing. A profound maturity emanates from the emotion and the writing in this novel. With True Copies, Monique LaRue joins the ranks of our greatest authors who aimed to write the story of the Americas: Victor Lévy-Beaulieu, Jacques Poulin, Marie-Claire Blais." —Le Soleil |
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OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE DE MONTREAL
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