With beautiful symbolist cover art by Victoria artist Miles Lowry, this is a Canada Council-subsidized translation from the French 'Une belle journee d'avance' originally published by Editions du Seuil, Paris, France in 1986 and republished in this 1998 Ekstasis paperback edition with English translation by Neil B. Bishop. In fact, the book seemed to receive two types of funding from the Council, one amount for translation from the French, and another cheque for the publishing itself. It also received funding from the Cultural Services Branch of British Columbia. There is a small sepia-toned photograph by Serge Clement of the award-winning author Robert Lalonde on the back of the paperback.