The Inheritor, the final volume in Quebec novelist and filmmaker Paul Amond’s eight-part Alford Saga, will be launched in Montreal on Wednesday. The series is a partly fictional, partly non-fictional chronicle of the author’s roots on the Gaspé coast in Quebec over a 200-year period.
Last year, Mr. Almond told the Montreal Gazette, “The saga covers Canadian history as it relates to my family.”
The Inheritor completes Paul Almond’s eight-volume Alford Saga.
The Inheritor is about the author’s life. Publisher Red Deer Press said, “〈The〉 last novel in the Alford Saga is a stand-alone autobiographical roman à clef about the remarkable life, loves, agonies, achievements and awards of Canada’s prestigious movie producer, director, and entrepreneur.”
Mr. Almond died in Malibu, California on April 9, a day after his book was published.
Journalist Bill Brownstein wrote in the Gazette, “The Deserter, the first book in the saga, focuses on the ordeals of Almond’s great-grandfather Thomas Manning, who jumped ship at the Gaspé Peninsula in 1810.” Manning fought in the Battle of Trafalgar under Lord Nelson before he deserted.
Mr. Almond described his series as factional. “All the facts relating to my family are true, but nobody really knows what anyone actually said in 1820, so that’s all imagined. But what I did learn for certain was my great-grandfather was rescued by a tribe of micmacs in Shigawake in the Gaspé.”
The launch of The Inheritor will take place Wednesday, June 10, at 7:00 p.m. at the Westmount Public Library, 4574 Sherbrooke Street West.
You can read about the series on the Red Deer Press website.
