{"product_id":"la-priere-de-lepinette-noire","title":"The Prayer of the Black Spruce","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe black spruce, glory of prehistory, is an antenna connecting us to eternity. It instills in us a somber wisdom, a long-term melancholy. It is the tree I lean on, where I rest my mind, my broken back, my dead legs. The tree under which I drink my cup of tea, resolute, tired, happy before the small fire that smells so good. Black spruce of Sainte-Corneille, spruce of the raven's echo, firewood, dead spruce, pole of the conical house, spruce of the comforting smoke, dense and precious wood that consumes the fuel of the solar rows: you are the North in all its thorny truth.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis posthumous book by Serge Bouchard follows \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eL’Allume-cigarette de la Chrysler noire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2019) and \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUn café avec Marie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2021). Like these two collections, it is composed of short texts, written and read by Serge Bouchard on the weekly radio show C’est fou…, co-hosted with Jean-Philippe Pleau, who wrote the preface to this book. It features the same poetic sensitivity and mocking wisdom that characterize Serge Bouchard's prose, centered around themes that always inspired him: nature, human solidarity, friendship with Indigenous peoples, the oddities of the modern world, beauty, and melancholy. One can once again hear the unique voice of a major writer of our time who, until the very end, was keen to share with his audience his reflections on what gives meaning to our very existence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boréal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48344540479736,"sku":"9782764613900","price":17.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0505\/4880\/1716\/files\/9782764613900_large_fd2ac726-09bf-4cea-9a11-e9562832cecc.webp?v=1778168951","url":"https:\/\/griffunrie.ca\/en\/products\/la-priere-de-lepinette-noire","provider":"La Griffunrie","version":"1.0","type":"link"}