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BIG SOFTY

  • Coming-of age story
  • Categories:Contemporary
  • Language:French（Translation Services Available）
  • Publication Place:Canada
  • Publication date:March,2025
  • Pages:344
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“This first novel by Jean F. Boily is a work of immense beauty. The short, incisive sentences, mixing tenderness and crudeness without artificial stylistic effects, it all hits the nail on the head. The author’s fluid, poetic and sagacious pen spares us not an ounce of truth or violence. A name to remember, absolutely.”
—Le Devoir

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★Finalist - Prix Senghor du 1er roman francophone et francophile 2025.
★The author’s extraordinary talent for storytelling shines through as he deftly shifts between comedy and tragedy using language that is flavorful and accessible.

Description

Big Softy is the coming-of-age story of a young boy who trades his small town for what he thinks will be a better life in the big city. Readers follow him on the roller coaster of addiction, punctuated by witty anecdotes about the dark side of life working in kitchens. A gripping picaresque novel rife with twists and turns.

“At school, they decided to call me Big Softy and the nickname stuck, despite my best efforts to shake it off. I was chubby, too. Porky. An easy target. I knew I shouldn’t overeat, but what good is your conscience when your taste buds are bewitched? My addiction had already taken hold.”

Author

JEAN F. BOILY has worked as a ghostwriter for big names in the culinary industry. He has also written and translated for the theatre and worked in TV. A father of four, he led a regional initiative to promote the circular economy and locally sourced food. His first novel received rave reviews upon publication.

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