
The Immaculate Conception
Gaetan Soucy(Author)
House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 13. September 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-0-88784-783-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
It takes a short time to read and a long time to forget. It has the power of a Grimm fairy tale...Nothing is what it first seems. * Toronto Star *More details
Edition
2nd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Concord
Canada
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 125 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
364 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88784-783-7 (9780887847837)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Gaetan Soucy has written four novels to acclaim in Canada and abroad. He teaches philosophy and lives in Montreal. Lazer Lederhendler is a Governor General's Award-winning translator. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.