First published in 2007 as La Vie dure by Éditions Varia, Montreal. This revised edition, in the author’s own translation, first published in 2026.
Copyright © 2007, 2026 by Guy Verville. All rights reserved.
This is not a reprint. The rights to La Vie dure reverted to me, and I have used the occasion to revise the collection substantially — to rework it, to cut, in places to rewrite outright. The book published in 2007 and the book in your hands share a storm; they are not the same book.