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By François Barcelo

Los angeles Réunion, au milieu de l’océan Indien, est une île splendide et très peu visitée par les Nord-Américains. Un Québécois vieillissant, Raoul Damphousse, est invité à y diriger une école de danse à claquettes. Incapable du moindre pas de danse, il ira de mensonges en déceptions, et ne verra rien de cette île où il se tournera en ridicule plus souvent qu’à son tour.

Dans ce roman, François Barcelo discover des thèmes parfois nouveaux pour lui : le vieillissement, los angeles difficulté de communiquer, le dépaysement, l’arrogance strange des Québécois. Mais toujours avec l’ironie mordante et le sens de l’autodérision qui sont ses marques de commerce.

Raoul Damphousse est un champion de los angeles danse à claquettes, activité dont il a dû abandonner l. a. pratique à l. a. suite d’un twist of fate. Il s’est depuis recyclé dans l. a. podorythmie avec plus ou moins de succès. Un jour, une dame de l. a. Réunion l’invite à venir dans cette île de l’océan Indien pour assurer l. a. course de l’école de claquettes de son défunt mari. Damphousse arrive, pour deux mois, et espère transformer ses apprentis danseurs en podorythmistes accomplis. Il ne passera dans l’île qu’une semaine et n’en verra pratiquement rien. Mais il apprendra à connaître ses gens, surtout les jeunes. Et à se connaître lui-même... ce qui est parfois bien plus difficile.

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60 THINGS YOU’LL FEEL SMUG ABOUT Having all your own hair 61 Having all your own teeth Being able to tell youngsters you actually remember the 60s (even though you can’t remember what happened yesterday) Watching young people make the same mistakes you made and doing nothing to stop them 62 Having a no-claims bonus record that predates the birth of the person you deal with at the insurance company Having seen every single episode of Coronation Street since it began Going to a funeral and coming home again afterwards 63 HOORAY!

41 Well of course it was! Don’t fret for a moment over the fact that the individuals shuffling miserably round your kitchen have cost you the equivalent of a really good win on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Meanwhile, if you’ve drunk two pints of beer each and every day since you were 18, (and who could blame you with your family) that would represent a lifetime’s consumption of 30,680 pints. 25 a pint. So your 30,680 pints has cost you around £69,030 in today’s money. 42 If you smoke as well (and who could blame you with the stress of having to find all the money) that will also have cost you a mighty (cigarette) packet since you started puffing away over forty years ago.

60 THINGS YOU’LL FEEL SMUG ABOUT Having all your own hair 61 Having all your own teeth Being able to tell youngsters you actually remember the 60s (even though you can’t remember what happened yesterday) Watching young people make the same mistakes you made and doing nothing to stop them 62 Having a no-claims bonus record that predates the birth of the person you deal with at the insurance company Having seen every single episode of Coronation Street since it began Going to a funeral and coming home again afterwards 63 HOORAY!

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