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    The City
    The City
    The City
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    The City

    By Leo Plouffe, Jr.

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    Montreal Canada in the 1970's becomes the canvas to depict the universal experience of city life. A medical student meets an enigmatic poet. They become companions in a journey that uncovers the fascinating beauty and the devastating horror that permeates every minute of life in the city.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateDec 4, 2008
    ISBN9781440105715
    The City
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    Leo Plouffe, Jr.

    Leo Plouffe Jr was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. He completed his medical studies at McGill University and the Medical College of Georgia. His career has spanned basic and clinical research in academic and private research institutions. He now lives near New York City with his wife, also a physician.

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      The City - Leo Plouffe, Jr.

      Copyright © 2008, 2014 Leo Plouffe Jr.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4401-0570-8 (sc)

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      Library of Congress Control Number: 2008942353

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      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements

      The First Encounter

      The Dream I

      From Ravenscrag

      The City

      Mister Winter

      The Corner Store

      You Are No Longer Lost

      The Park Bench

      I Heard the Cry of a Child

      The Race Track

      The Death of a King

      The Elevator Ride

      The Bus Rider

      Streets of Miseries

      The Deep Night

      To Know You Are There

      From Labor and Delivery

      Off to See The World

      The Trip

      Riding Along the Highway

      The Tower*

      The LA Bonaventure Hotel

      San Francisco

      New Orleans

      Stranger on Bourbon Street

      From Above

      Back Home

      The Dream II

      The Wino

      Stages of Fright

      The Wheel

      Where Have You Gone Silence

      Ravenscrag

      Emptiness

      The Nightmare

      the poet alone

      money

      pagan images of god

      cursed children

      sipit

      orphans of the night

      (Untitled)

      there was a city

      scavengers

      the judgment

      the lonely man

      the curtain

      Farewell

      The Day Dream

      A Shadow in the Night.

      Snow

      The Metro

      Traffic Jam

      Pigeons

      It Is Too Late Now?

      Heroes For A Night

      Friday Night

      Saturday Night

      Rainy Night

      The Message

      I love

      Epilogue:Friend

      Acknowledgements

      To Eve, my wife, who is my daily inspiration to see love, beauty and to believe.

      To my mother, who has always driven me to live my dreams.

      To all the patients and my classmates from my medical school days who thought me what an incredible privilege and responsibility it is to assist people in their journey to health.

      And to all the women and men who suffer through mental illness; they are the world’s greatest poets though most of their works never escape the cavernous depths of their ailing minds.

      The First Encounter

      Montreal is an absolutely unique city. It is the largest French-speaking city in the Americas. It has a proud history, from its tumultuous beginnings as a French settlement in 1642, the center of Canadian business through the late 1960’s, the Quebec separatist movement linked terrorist bombings in the 1960’s and the host of the XXIst Olympic Games in 1976. It is the home of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team as well as

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