SOURCE: "School Days," in Canadian Literature, Vol. 103, Winter, 1984, pp. 123-25.

In the favorable review below, Moss summarizes the plot and themes of Thérèse et Pierrette.

Shelia Fischman has performed another valuable service for Anglophones in translating Michel Tremblay's 1980 novel, Thérèse et Pierrette à l'école des Saints-Anges. Best known as the playwright who revolutionized Quebec theatre by using joual in Les Belles Soeurs (1968), Tremblay has since 1978 devoted himself to the Balzacian task of re-creating Montreal in the 1940's in his "Chroniques du Plateau Mont Royal." Tremblay's Montreal is a personalized fictional world in which the characters of his plays act out their past in the author's old neighbourhood near la rue Fabre. The second volume of this "comédie humaine montréalaise" focuses on a trio of eleven-year-old girls who will play lead roles in the elaborate Corpus Christi celebration put on for the Saint...