p. 230: “Peter Pan,” Patty Griffin
Chapter Twenty-Nine
p. 235: “C’était l’hiver,” Isabelle Boulay
p. 238: “Feelin’ Love,” Paula Cole
Chapter Thirty
p. 245: “Paris se regarde,” Francis Lemarque
Chapter Thirty-One
p. 256: “A ton enterrement,” Oxmo Puccino
Chapter Thirty-Two
p. 263: “Broken Bicycles,” Tom Waits
p. 266: Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Minor, op. 40:III Largo, Dmitri Shostakovich
Chapter Thirty-Three
p. 270: “In the Pines” (Leadbelly), Odetta “Good Night Irene” (Leadbelly), Kelly Joe Phelps
p. 276: “The Host of the Seraphim,” Dead Can Dance
Chapter Thirty-Four
p. 281: “Song to the Siren,” This Mortal Coil
Chapter Thirty-Five
p. 286: “Goodbye,” Chet Baker
Chapter Thirty-Six
p. 291: “Antienne Ego sum Alpha et O,” Gregorian chant from the album Millennium: Music from the Middle Ages
Chapter Thirty-Seven
p. 297: “I Grieve,” Peter Gabriel
Chapter Thirty-Eight
p. 306: “Desolation Row” (Bob Dylan), Chris Smithers
p. 315: “Let Him Fly,” Patty Griffin
Chapter Thirty-Nine
p. 317: “Angel,” Sarah McLachlan
p. 321: “Shelter,” Ray LaMontagne
Coda: “Calling All Angels,” Jane Siberry
Read on
Web Detective
Journalists at Risk
www.newssafety.com
The International News Safety Institute is a non-governmental organization dedicated to the safety of journalists and media staff and committed to fighting the persecution of journalists everywhere.
www.cpj.org
The Committee to Protect Journalists promotes press freedom worldwide.
Peacemaking Organizations
www.cpt.org
Founded in 1984, Christian Peacemaker Teams places “violence-reduction” teams in crisis situations and militarized areas around the world at the invitation of local peace and human rights workers. Initiated by Mennonites, Brethren and Quakers, with the participation of other Christian denominations, CPT embraces the vision of unarmed intervention.
www.supportsanity.org
Support Sanity is an independent public campaign devoted to building “an even-handed two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.”
www.tikkun.org/community
Tikkun is an international community of people of many faiths calling for justice and potential freedom in the context of new structures of work, caring communities, and democratic social and economic arrangements.
Visit Lauren B. Davis at www.laurenbdavis.com for a complete list of readings, book signings, writing workshops and journal entries.
Read an interview with Lauren B. Davis, find questions for group discussions, and more. www.harpercollins.ca/readersgroups.asp
www.plowsharesinstitute.com
Plowshares Institute addresses social risks and conflicts to build a more just and peaceful world community.
Genocide Awareness
www.genocideintervention.net Genocide Intervention reminds us that what happened in Rwanda can and has happened again, most recently in Darfur.
www.rwandafund.org/sections/survivors/
The Aegis Trust is launching the Rwanda Fund to demonstrate, especially to the survivors, that people outside Rwanda do care and are making an effort to avoid the tragedy of genocide. As well as preserving the memory of the genocide, these projects will promote opportunities for children to attend school and participate in local economic activities. Of particular poignancy are the survivors’ stories.
French News
www.adetocqueville.com/
The Tocqueville Connection provides an alternative source for French news and political analysis.
Army Rangers
www.armyranger.com
Army Rangers offers a good history of this elite fighting unit’s history, with a specific section on Vietnam. This is the unit in which the author imagined Jack Saddler.
Le Corbusier and the Radiant City
www.fondationlecorbusier.asso.fr/
Official site of the Le Corbusier Foundation, with an English translation.
www.uky.edu/Classes/PS/776/Projects/Lecorbusier/lecorbusier.html
An article by Rachel Kennedy from the University of Kentucky that offers a critical perspective of Le Corbusier’s urban planning model.
About the Author
LAUREN B. DAVIS is the author of the national bestseller The Stubborn Season, which was selected for the prestigious Robert Adams Lecture Series, and a collection of short stories, Rat Medicine and Other Unlikely Curatives, which was published to outstanding reviews. Born in Montreal, Lauren B. Davis later lived in France for ten years. She now lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Visit her website at www.laurenbdavis.com.
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Praise for The Radiant City
“[The Radiant City] is engrossing and convincing… . Davis’s question here is how can human beings look into a heart of darkness … and crawl back to the light again?”
—Quill & Quire (starred review)
“A starkly realistic story of friendship, courage and the effects of violence on the human spirit. Davis’s taut, unadorned narrative breathes life into the characters… . This novel will resonate in the minds of many readers.”
—Winnipeg Free Press
“It’s a difficult book to put down … Smooth, engaging writing that doesn’t flinch from the rawness that … is life. ‘Light is neutral and indifferent.’ We can’t afford to be. Perhaps that’s the most important revelation of all.”
—Books in Canada
“In this moody, exciting, clever novel, people hit the streets of the real [Paris] city neighbourhoods… . For those who still think life in Paris happens on the Left Bank, The Radiant City is quite an update.”
—The Vancouver Sun
“Beautifully wrought style of prose … [with] an intensity of images and ideas not easily left behind with the closing of the back cover… . [A] story of modern times to haunt any reader with a conscience.”
—The New Brunswick Reader
“With extraordinary compassion, insight, and intelligence, Davis illuminates the human aftershocks of senseless violence and in that cold light, somehow, astonishingly, rekindles hope.”
—Merilyn Simonds, author of The Convict Lover and The Holding
Praise for The Stubborn Season
“A skilful weaving of emotion and event… . An epiphanic hourglass for the harsh dust that trickled through one of the worst of times.”
—The Globe and Mail
“Beautiful… . Lauren B. Davis’s voice is as authentic, compelling and deep as a Mordecai Richler or Robertson Davis at their best. A real literary achievement.”
—The Paris Voice
“Poignant and compassionate… . Because of the exceptional quality of the prose, the result for the reader is pure pleasure.”
—Robert Adams
“Davis’s talent is unmistakable… . Margaret is one of the most memorable characters I have encountered in contemporary Canadian fiction… . Inspiring.”
—National Post
“This is a wonderful novel… . Every character is sincerely drawn; these sentences just gleam. The Stubborn Season is one of those rare novels I look forward to reading again.”
—Toronto Star
“The Stubborn Season is precise, polished … generously laced with authentic history… . An exceptionally satisfying read.”
—The Gazette (Montreal)
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