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A Globe and Mail Most Anticipated Spring Title

Don Quixote meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit in this slapstick epic about destiny, family demons, and revenge.

1911. A hockey game in Quebec''s Gaspé Peninsula. With the score tied two-two in overtime, local tough guy Billy Joe Pictou fires the puck directly into Monti Bouge''s mouth. When Pictou''s momentum carries them both across the goal line in a spray of shattered teeth, Victor Bradley, erstwhile referee and local mailman, rules that the goal counts—and Monti''s ensuing revenge for this injustice sprawls across three generations, one hundred years, and dozens of dastardly deeds. Fuelled by a bottomless supply of Yukon, the high-proof hooch that may or may not cause the hallucinatory sightings of a technicolor beast that haunts not just Monti but his descendants, it''s up to Monti''s grandson François—and his floundering doctoral di

The Hollow Beast

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      Publisher Biblioasis
      Published 5/16/2024
      ISBN-13 9781771965552
      978-1771965552
      ISBN-10 177196555X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A Globe and Mail Most Anticipated Spring Title

      Don Quixote meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit in this slapstick epic about destiny, family demons, and revenge.

      1911. A hockey game in Quebec''s Gaspé Peninsula. With the score tied two-two in overtime, local tough guy Billy Joe Pictou fires the puck directly into Monti Bouge''s mouth. When Pictou''s momentum carries them both across the goal line in a spray of shattered teeth, Victor Bradley, erstwhile referee and local mailman, rules that the goal counts—and Monti''s ensuing revenge for this injustice sprawls across three generations, one hundred years, and dozens of dastardly deeds. Fuelled by a bottomless supply of Yukon, the high-proof hooch that may or may not cause the hallucinatory sightings of a technicolor beast that haunts not just Monti but his descendants, it''s up to Monti''s grandson François—and his floundering doctoral di

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