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The obese Christ : a novel

Summary: Edgar, a timid, asocial thirty-something, witnesses the brutal rape of a young woman and subsequently bears the unconscious victim home. Haunted by the death of his overbearing mother, he pledges to act as the mysterious woman's saviour.

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  • ISBN: 9780889228429 (pbk.) :
  • ISBN: 0889228426 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    126 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia : Talonbooks, [2014]

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General Note:
Translated from the French.
"This work was originally published in French as Le Christ obèse by Éditions Alto, Quebec City, Quebec in 2012."--Title page verso.
Subject: Catholics -- Fiction
Death -- Fiction
Good and evil -- Fiction
Grief -- Fiction
Mothers and sons -- Fiction
Rape victims -- Fiction
Québec (Province) -- Fiction
Genre: Canadian fiction.
French-Canadian fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Psychological fiction, Canadian.

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Summary: Edgar, a timid, asocial thirty-something, witnesses the brutal rape of a young woman and subsequently bears the unconscious victim home. Haunted by the death of his overbearing mother, he pledges to act as the mysterious woman's saviour.

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