Description
Talonbooks, Vancouver, Published 2010. Paperback, 94 pp.; 22 cm; First Printing. Translated from the French by Linda Gaboriau.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Pictorial paper covers with mild shelf wear. Binding is tight. Pages otherwise unmarked.[From back cover] At the end of the First World War, to protect his village from the Spanish flu epidemic brought home by returning soldiers, a young priest recently arrived in the Parish of Lac St-Jean commissions a wandering Italian painter to decorate the walls of the local church with a fresco dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The painter is to choose, among four local women all named Mary, a model for his work. The presence of the foreign artist, his choice of a local virgin to serve as a model, and the frighteningly strange nature of his work will upset the lives and change the fate of the entire community. As superstition collides with desire, The Madonna Painter unmasks a bouquet of lies disguised as a fable.