{"product_id":"9780903696975","title":"Holding the Main \/ Tendre la Main","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn 1987, \"The Main: Portrait of a Neighborhood\" celebrated tolerance and the urban immigrant experience around Montreal's Boulevard Saint Laurent. This 2025 reimagining investigates belonging, identity, memory and the evolving photobook in a globalized world. Text in English and French.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1987, \u003ci\u003eThe Main: Portrait of a Neighborhood\u003c\/i\u003e (9781550130461) was published and quickly sold out. The critically acclaimed project celebrated the communities around Montreal’s Boulevard Saint Laurent and contributed to the eventual designation of “The Main” as a Canadian heritage landmark.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In 2017, to celebrate the city’s 375th anniversary, the author was invited to re-imagine the original book. Returning to his former neighborhood, his new book weaves old and new photographs with texts and archives, inviting us on a journey into his creative process to reflect on questions of home, identity, time, memory, and the evolving urban landscape, and asking: in a globalized world where people and cities are in constant movement, what happens to places and memories? Can we go home again?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Text in English and French.","brand":"Edward Hillel","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":47740537766110,"sku":"9780903696975","price":74.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0425\/4567\/6440\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a8f854d9-e8bd-4858-bff9-9ee23ab816f0.jpg?v=1765248117","url":"https:\/\/paragraphbooks.com\/fr\/products\/9780903696975","provider":"Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}