The Cashier (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Gabrielle Roy
- First Published: 1955
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1940’s, Cancer, Death or dying, Canada or Canadians, Banks, bankers, or banking, French Canadians
- Locales: Montreal, Canada
Alexandre Chenevert, the cashier, wakes up at night worrying about world affairs. Longshoremen are on strike, and food rots on the docks while poverty-stricken children suffer from malnutrition. It is 1947, Germany has surrendered, the war is over, yet fighting still continues in Greece. Chenevert visualizes Jewish refugees, refused admission by the British mandate government, drowning off the coast of Palestine, and decides he hates England. His stomach hurts, but medicines in his bathroom cabinet offer no relief. He falls asleep shortly before the alarm rings and awakes befuddled and...
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