MICHEL BASILIÉRES
grew up in Montreal with his French father and Anglophone mother. He now lives in Toronto, where he is writing his second novel.
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National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Basilières, Michel
Black bird: a novel / by Michel Basilières.
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PS8
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53.A7858B58 2004 C813′.6 C2003–905690–2
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