The immaculate conception
East-end Montreal in the mid-1920s. A popular restaurant is razed by an arsonist. Seventy-five people perish in the inferno. While strolling with his wheelchair-ridden father, a man furtively salvages a charred icon from the ruins. He is Remouald Tremblay, a self-effacing bank clerk whose pocket holds a treasured rabbit's foot and whose memory contains an unspeakable hell. Originally published in 1994 as L'Immaculee conception, this is the novel that established Gaetan Soucy as a powerful new l…
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- Full title :The immaculate conception / Gaétan Soucy ; translated by Lazer Lederhendler.
Summary
East-end Montreal in the mid-1920s. A popular restaurant is razed by an arsonist. Seventy-five people perish in the inferno. While strolling with his wheelchair-ridden father, a man furtively salvages a charred icon from the ruins. He is Remouald Tremblay, a self-effacing bank clerk whose pocket holds a treasured rabbit's foot and whose memory contains an unspeakable hell. Originally published in 1994 as L'Immaculee conception, this is the novel that established Gaetan Soucy as a powerful new literary force in Quebec. In it, he echoes the writing of Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Immaculate Conception was shortlisted for the Giller Prize in 2006.
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- Publication Date:2007, ©2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):House of Anansi Press Inc
- Place of Publication:Toronto
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2007, ©2005.
Notes
"Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize."--Cover.
Translation of: L'Immaculée Conception.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (320 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781770890664, 1770890661
- oclc:ocn811404824
- LC Classification:PQ3919.2.S655
- Dewey Decimal:848.99
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