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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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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 *

The Immaculate Conception

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    A Paperback / softback by Gaetan Soucy, Lazer Lederhendler

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      Publisher: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 13/09/2007
      ISBN13: 9780887847837, 978-0887847837
      ISBN10: 0887847838

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Trade Review
      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 *

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