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Novel by the Canadian author Gabrielle Roy
First edition Street of Riches fr .Rue Deschambault Canadian author Gabrielle Roy . It was originally published in French as Rue Deschambault by Beauchemin in 1955. An English translation by Harry L. Binsse, Street of Riches , was published by McClelland and Stewart in 1957.
Largely autobiographical, it traces the growth and development of a young girl into an accomplished writer. Like much of Roy's fiction, it includes a very autobiographical style and weaves vignettes into a tapestry of the specific time and place. The book covers themes including the social divide between the French Canadian and English Canadian communities in what were the twin cities of St. Boniface and Winnipeg , Manitoba , European immigration to the Canadian prairies, family dynamics and racial integration.
According to literary criticism, the novel is part of the realistic movement .[1]
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1930s 1940s
Ringuet , Thirty Acres Alan Sullivan , Three Came to Ville Marie (1941)G. Herbert Sallans , Little Man (1942)Thomas Head Raddall , The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek (1943)Gwethalyn Graham , Earth and High Heaven Hugh MacLennan , Two Solitudes Winifred Bambrick , Continental Revue (1946)Gabrielle Roy , The Tin Flute Hugh MacLennan , The Precipice Philip Child , Mr. Ames Against Time (1949) 1950s
Germaine Guèvremont , The Outlander (1950)Morley Callaghan , The Loved and the Lost (1951)David Walker , The Pillar (1952)David Walker , Digby (1953)Igor Gouzenko , The Fall of a Titan (1954)Lionel Shapiro , The Sixth of June (1955)Adele Wiseman , The Sacrifice (1956)Gabrielle Roy , Street of Riches Colin McDougall , Execution Hugh MacLennan , The Watch That Ends the Night 1960s 1970s
Dave Godfrey , The New Ancestors (1970)Mordecai Richler , St. Urbain's Horseman Robertson Davies , The Manticore Rudy Wiebe , The Temptations of Big Bear (1973)Margaret Laurence , The Diviners Brian Moore , The Great Victorian Collection Marian Engel , Bear Timothy Findley , The Wars Alice Munro , Who Do You Think You Are? Jack Hodgins , The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (1979) 1980s
George Bowering , Burning Water (1980)Mavis Gallant , Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981)Guy Vanderhaeghe , Man Descending Leon Rooke , Shakespeare's Dog Josef Škvorecký , The Engineer of Human Souls (1984)Margaret Atwood , The Handmaid's Tale Alice Munro , The Progress of Love M. T. Kelly , A Dream Like Mine (1987)David Adams Richards , Nights Below Station Street Paul Quarrington , Whale Music 1990s
Nino Ricci , Lives of the Saints Rohinton Mistry , Such a Long Journey Michael Ondaatje , The English Patient Carol Shields , The Stone Diaries Rudy Wiebe , A Discovery of Strangers (1994)Greg Hollingshead , The Roaring Girl (1995)Guy Vanderhaeghe , The Englishman's Boy Jane Urquhart , The Underpainter Diane Schoemperlen , Forms of Devotion (1998)Matt Cohen , Elizabeth and After 2000s
Michael Ondaatje , Anil's Ghost Richard B. Wright , Clara Callan Gloria Sawai , A Song for Nettie Johnson (2002)Douglas Glover , Elle (2003)Miriam Toews , A Complicated Kindness David Gilmour , A Perfect Night to Go to China Peter Behrens , The Law of Dreams Michael Ondaatje , Divisadero Nino Ricci , The Origin of Species (2008)Kate Pullinger , The Mistress of Nothing (2009) 2010s
Dianne Warren , Cool Water (2010)Patrick deWitt , The Sisters Brothers Linda Spalding , The Purchase (2012)Eleanor Catton , The Luminaries Thomas King , The Back of the Turtle Guy Vanderhaeghe , Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (2015)Madeleine Thien , Do Not Say We Have Nothing Joel Thomas Hynes , We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night Sarah Henstra , The Red Word Joan Thomas , Five Wives 2020s
