Wild Red Love

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By (author): Pierre Chatillon

Translated by: Kathe Roth

An old house painter learns that he probably has an incurable disease. While the doctors try to save his life, the old man, who has never ventured beyond his small town, dreams of going to spend his final days living intensely in a sunny Florida that is transfigured by his feverish desire not to die. And it is this overwhelming desire that brings back the memory of the redheaded young woman who was the great love of his life. “Wild Red Love” is a novel full of colour, passion, and tenderness, about mad love, fiery love, set in Nicolet in the 1920s and taking the reader through landscapes in the American South – a hymn to the beauty of the world.

AUTHOR

Pierre Chatillon

Pierre Chatillon was born in Nicolet, Québec and published over forty award-winning poetry books, novels, and essays during his writing career. In 1987 he received the City of Trois-Rivières Lifetime Achievement Award for his work. In 2000 he was the recipient of the Lionel-Groulx Award from the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society for the Central Québec Region. In 2005 he was presented with the Adagio Award at the Trois-Rivières Book Expo and the Excellence in Literature Award from the Cultural Development Centre for the Central Region of Québec.

AUTHOR

Kathe Roth

Denis Vaugeois is a historian, a publisher, and the author of various books on North American and European history, including America: The Lewis & Clark Expedition and the Dawn of a New Power and Mapping a Continent. He is also Quebec?s former minister of cultural affairs. He lives in Quebec City, Quebec. Käthe Roth is an editor and translator with more than 15 years of experience. She is the coauthor with Denis Vaugeois of America?s Gift: What the World Owes to the Americas and their First Inhabitants and the translator of Vaugeois?s The Last French and Indian War. She lives in Montreal.