The Main: A Novel
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009I8XT3U
Publish date: July 26th 2005
Publisher: Crown
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
The Main is Montreal's immigrant district. It is noisy, its sounds a babel of languages and traffic and life being lived. It's dirty, often violent, and is both the beat of thirty-year police veteran Claude LaPointe and his home. LaPointe is a throwback of a cop, who ignores paperwork and roughs up ...
perpetual clouded over "pig weather" Montreal becomes the setting for an old school beat-walking police officer who 'owns' the Main, the most run-down neighborhood of Montreal unraveling the murder mystery while surrounded by the youngster runaways, Quebecois Joual-speaking street hustlers, and vari...